Ideas Quotes

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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It… — James Joseph Sylvester
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the… — Antoine Lavoisier
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Unknown Author
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to… — Paul Feyerabend
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. — Hannes Alfven
In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so… — Vissarion Belinsky
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come… — Edward Forbes
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy… — Gilbert N. Lewis
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. — Frederick Banting
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are… — Andre-Marie Ampere
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — William James Mayo
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from… — Robert Fulton
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are… — Fritz Haber
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — Unknown Author
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. — J. Arthur Thomson
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and… — Gilbert N. Lewis
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it… — Herbert York

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