Foundations Quotes

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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the… — Adolf Hitler
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular… — James F. Cooper
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Rumi
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in… — Roger Bacon
It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from… — Francis Bacon
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form… — Benjamin Rush
The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is… — Ravi Zacharias
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they… — David Hume
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance… — George Santayana
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until… — Johannes Kepler
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease,… — Gerald Edelman
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why… — Jonathan Falwell
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize… — John Templeton
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be… — Paul Tillich
My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only… — John Harvey Kellogg
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity… — C. D. Darlington

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