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Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement… — Leonard Read
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be… — Archibald Geikie
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. — Geoffrey Fisher
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive… — Unknown Author
MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of… — Unknown Author
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a… — Paul Davies
We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority — Irene Fernandez
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are… — Lady Bird Johnson
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is… — Unknown Author
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who… — Mildred Fay Jefferson
Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over… — Unknown Author
On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
I grew up having to care what people think; it was part of my job.I've been built up and torn down, built up and torn… — LeAnn Rimes
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but… — Sun Tzu
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth. — Luc de Clapiers
Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries,… — Paulo Coelho
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space,… — Marshall Savage

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