Moving Quotes
8564 quotes by 5247 authors
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Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus…
— Ken Wilber
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle…
— Galileo Galilei
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there…
— G. H. Hardy
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All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
— Francis Bacon
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one…
— Stephen Covey
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An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer…
— Hermann Bondi
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed…
— Edward Teller
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
— Francis Bacon
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Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
— Honore de Balzac
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The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind…
— Shirley MacLaine
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To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may…
— Alexander Calder
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If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on…
— Douglas Adams
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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
— J. G. Ballard
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I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had…
— Vera Wang
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While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown…
— Mark Epstein
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