Necessity Quotes

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If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something… — Walter E. Williams
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. — Murray Rothbard
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity… — Albert Einstein
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either… — Michael Faraday
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the… — John F. Kennedy
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the… — William Osler
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. — Samuel Adams
And nature must obey necessity. — William Shakespeare
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof… — Samuel Johnson
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church? [...]… — Martin Luther
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true… — Dalai Lama
Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those… — Pearl S. Buck
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be… — Albert Schweitzer

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