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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. — Paul Tournier
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who… — William Daniel Phillips
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first… — Thomas Nagel
There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned… — Desmond Tutu
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very… — Harold S. Kushner
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important… — Rajneesh
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved God… — William J. Clinton
We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just… — Orlando Bloom
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of… — Don Kates
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of… — David George Hogarth
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary. — Aberjhani
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not… — Wilfred Trotter
When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary! — John C. Maxwell
Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you… — Tom Nelson
None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are… — Shmuley Boteach
It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction.… — Deacon Jones
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. — Laozi
Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after… — Ian Kiernan
You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And… — Unknown Author
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American… — Sherman Alexie
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. — Albert Einstein
...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because… — Patricio Aylwin

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