Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes;… — Gilbert Ryle
The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory… — Charles Lane Poor
The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical… — August Krogh
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major… — H. Bentley Glass
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a… — Unknown Author
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. — Roderick Murchison
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own… — Paul Davies
The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication. — Bernadette Roberts
If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest… — Unknown Author
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the… — Yves Klein
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. — Arthur Peacocke
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,… — Voltairine de Cleyre
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales… — Ervin Laszlo
It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning… — William Buckland
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble… — Earl Doherty
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief… — Antony Hewish
Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept… — Christian B. Anfinsen
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the… — Edward Robert Harrison
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. — Charles Hard Townes
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery… — Allan Sandage

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