Ground Quotes

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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time… — Thomas Jefferson
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing… — T. Harv Eker
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building… — Karl Popper
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be… — Erwin Schrodinger
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye. — William Wordsworth
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed… — Albert Claude
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. — Dorothy L. Sayers
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised… — James Madison
The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate… — Wayne Dyer
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is… — Bertrand Russell
... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open… — David Hume
When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people… — Bertrand Russell
Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it… — Robert Kiyosaki
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these… — Amartya Sen

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