Existence Quotes

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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership — Charles Lindbergh
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,… — Roderick Murchison
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like… — Max Lerner
Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not… — William James
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes… — Max Wertheimer
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience… — Norbert Wiener
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,… — John Dewey
The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born… — Louis Pasteur
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they… — Herbert Spencer
The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be… — Penelope Lively
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some… — John Stuart Mill
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and not as a… — Tim Berners-Lee
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly… — Erwin Schrodinger
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of… — John Updike
This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to… — Marcello Malpighi
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways… — Carl G. Fisher

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