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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting…

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The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes.…
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical…
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from…
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with…
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products…
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical…
The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling…
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of…

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He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him. — Scottie Pippen
There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang. — Ken Dryden
After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years… — Pat Burns
We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards. — Edward de Bono
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. — Gary Vaynerchuk
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz
It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to… — Bobby Heenan
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. — Thomas Carlyle
The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur… — Thomas Jefferson
Raúl is a born goal-scorer. He was always in the right place at the right time. He was a great professional –… — Mauricio Cienfuegos
Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can’t give in to weak thoughts. You… — James Marsden

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