Merely Quotes

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With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between… — Paul Davies
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable… — Nicholas Kurti
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — Unknown Author
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of… — Daniel Dennett
If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced… — Sun Tzu
Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs… — Sun Tzu
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted… — Michel de Montaigne
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. — Confucius
Be not merely good. Be good for something. — Henry David Thoreau
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with… — Seneca the Younger
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to… — Peter Singer
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become… — Joseph Butler
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be… — Derek Parfit
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… — Thomas Jefferson

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