Force Quotes

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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point… — Abraham Lincoln
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to… — L. Neil Smith
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the… — Ludwig von Mises
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward. — Vernon Howard
Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative… — Wayne Dyer
Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience. — Walter Russell
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;… — Albert Einstein
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms… — Michael Faraday
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. — Charles Lindbergh
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods… — Charles Darwin
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed… — Francois Jacob
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little… — Walter Bagehot
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be… — Erwin Schrodinger
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the… — Albert Claude
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there… — Albert Einstein

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