Founded Quotes

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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all. — Moliere
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the… — Fisher Ames
This country was founded by religious nuts with guns. — P.J. O'Rourke
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before. — Lewis Thomas
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams… — Lord Kelvin
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded… — Frederick The Great
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce… — James Clerk Maxwell
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles;… — Thomas Paine
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs.… — Ronald Reagan
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He… — Boris Pasternak
True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change,… — Dalai Lama
How can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past that includes all… — Ronald Takaki
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of… — Ronald Takaki
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right… — Thomas Jefferson
[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious… — P.J. O'Rourke
Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore be made in… — Pope Benedict XVI

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