Influence Quotes

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We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject… — Otto Robert Frisch
I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe, and this is… — 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
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of… — Sonia Delaunay
We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We… — William O. Douglas
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose… — Lynne McTaggart
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a… — Svante Arrhenius
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
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific… — Unknown Author
The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other… — Henry Morgentaler
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation,… — Max Bill
I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience — Drake
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between… — Howard W. Hunter
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one… — Albert Schweitzer
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.... — Immanuel Kant
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. — Gottfried Leibniz
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it. — Henri Bergson

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