Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

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
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in… — Albert Einstein
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. — William James
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from… — Denis Waitley
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him. — Soren Kierkegaard
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence. — Frederick Salomon Perls
If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of… — Rajneesh

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