Over Quotes

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A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it. — Bob Kerrey
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power. — Oprah Winfrey
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. — Wallace D. Wattles
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which… — Johannes Kepler
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God… — Isaac Newton
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I… — Ronald Reagan
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to… — Georges Cuvier
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… — Hugh Miller
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition… — Reginald Fessenden
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and… — Charles Lindbergh
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect… — Tacitus
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to… — Michio Kaku
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they… — Karl Popper
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering… — Charles Lyell

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