Namely Quotes

321 quotes by 269 authors

Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision… — Thomas Sowell
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of… — Charles William Eliot
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions… — Robert Andrews Millikan
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner… — John Bunyan
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of… — David Attenborough
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes… — Jeffrey R. Holland
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its… — Loren Eiseley
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being… — Hannah More
The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system… — E. Stanley Jones
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical. — Winston Churchill
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary… — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the… — Robert S. Mulliken
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert

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