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The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to… — John Ruskin
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists… — Georges Braque
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe… — Antonio Damasio
Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them. — Henri Matisse
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among… — Nathanael Emmons
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat… — Isaiah Berlin
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making… — Thomas Jefferson
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not… — Albert Claude
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,… — John Burroughs
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the… — Albert Einstein
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann

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