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3621 General quotes by 2393 unique authors

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them. — Gene Spafford
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments,… — Benjamin Cardozo
Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the… — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in… — James Hutton
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole… — James Hutton
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so… — Elihu Thomson
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular… — Unknown Author
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why… — Dmitri Mendeleev
And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as… — William Harvey
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Unknown Author
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,… — William Buckland
Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they… — Niels Henrik Abel
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
A great doctor kills more people than a great general. — Gottfried Leibniz
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good… — Helenio Herrera

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