Force Quotes

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So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which… — Roger McDonald
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its… — Mikhail Bakunin
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,… — David Boaz
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise… — Bob Lutz
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of… — Steven Biko
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the… — Gordon S. Brown
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's… — L. Sprague de Camp
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
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives… — William Thomas Councilman
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Danielou
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Joseph Prestwich
The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other… — Henry Morgentaler
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. — Lord Kelvin
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge… — Christian B. Anfinsen
We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection… — C. Loring Brace
Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open… — Giambattista della Porta
...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of… — J. Stalin
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the… — Joel Barlow
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the… — Sun Tzu

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