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The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which… — Friedrich August von Hayek
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a… — Charles Nicolle
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things… — Gerald Holton
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Fritz Muller
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and… — Nicholas Metropolis
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les thÃ©ories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets… — Frank Kermode
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire… — Paul Bartsch
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. — James Prescott Joule
Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its… — Owen Gingerich
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it,… — Pat Condell
I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete… — Tom Shroder
Human life has the software and hardware to go the distance. All we need to do is know our nature and mimic nature's way. Do… — John Douillard
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. — Greg Boyle
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw… — Arthur Lowe
Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together… — Rebecca Goldstein
For a time, it would work well. then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression, horrible… — Channing Tatum

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