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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions… — Galileo Galilei
Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence… — Helen Keller
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of… — Walker Evans
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh
This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options. — Aristotle
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the… — Isaac Newton
Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the… — Yasmin Mogahed
You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive. — Joel Osteen
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the… — Antoine Lavoisier
The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which… — Johannes Kepler
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see,… — Robert Bridges
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be… — Alexander Pope
Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by way… — Thomas Blundeville
Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The… — Thomas Hobbes
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which… — Jean Toomer
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck;… — Leonardo da Vinci
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. — Marguerite Yourcenar
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means… — Henry James
Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you… — Ronnie Montrose
I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to… — Ronnie Montrose
Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity. — Frederick Lenz
The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to… — Paul Tillich
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that… — Johannes Kepler
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions… — Thomas Young

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