Extent Quotes

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If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self. — Shirley MacLaine
Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent… — Leo Tolstoy
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner… — James Jeans
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then… — Charles Francis Richter
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts… — James Bryant Conant
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite… — Giordano Bruno
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking… — James Fenton
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… — Samuel Johnson
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the… — John F. Kennedy
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. — Walter Russell
It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." — T. Harv Eker
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge Ã priori. — Immanuel Kant
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its… — Seth Shostak
I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. — Jeffrey Eugenides
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;… — Albert Einstein

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