Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3878 authors
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The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till…
— Francis Darwin
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During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the…
— Linus Pauling
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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from…
— Isaac Newton
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive…
— John William Draper
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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world…
— Immanuel Kant
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It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control…
— Hyman Rickover
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Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right…
— Adolf Hitler
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I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion…
— Heinrich Hertz
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor…
— Abraham Lincoln
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
— James Madison
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Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force…
— George Washington
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I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you,…
— Rajneesh
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It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
— Robert McNamara
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My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of…
— Richard Dawkins
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Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there…
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful…
— Charles Darwin
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When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is…
— James Madison
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
— Daniel Dennett
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and…
— Vladimir Lenin
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