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The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. — Doris Lessing
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time,… — Hermann Hesse
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. — Jacob Bronowski
Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught… — Abraham Lincoln
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those… — James Madison
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being… — Alexander Hamilton
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than… — Calvin Coolidge
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think… — Stephen Hawking
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has… — Steven Weinberg
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would… — Stephen Hawking
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. — George Carlin
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The… — Henry Ward Beecher
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,… — Frederick Soddy
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would… — Max Born
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that… — Johannes Kepler
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual… — Albert Einstein

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