May Quotes

20575 May quotes by 7930 unique authors

There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.… — Walter Russell
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed… — Owen Feltham
Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens… — Holly Near
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow… — Douglas MacArthur
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead… — Warren W. Wiersbe
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. — Walter Russell
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may… — James Boswell
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from… — Herman Boerhaave
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of… — Thomas Jefferson
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated… — George W. Bush
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond… — Isaac Newton
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. — Roger Tory Peterson
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the… — Andrew Carnegie
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the… — John Arbuthnot
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular… — Linus Pauling
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may… — Max Delbruck
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time… — Ronald Fisher
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and… — Johannes Kepler
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities… — Charles Lindbergh
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal

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