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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of… — Adam Sedgwick
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought… — John Henry Newman
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. — Tobias Smollett
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on… — Thomas Carlyle
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. — Charles Darwin
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams… — Lord Kelvin
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. — Charles Darwin
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life. — John Dewey
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive… — John William Draper
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion… — Galileo Galilei
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of… — Louis Agassiz
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised… — 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
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the… — Sri Chinmoy
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we… — Salman Rushdie
When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient… — Peter Stone
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. — Harun Yahya

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