Permitted Quotes
367 quotes by 305 authors
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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
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It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
— Marie Curie
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Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally…
— Robert Wright
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
— Gary Cooper
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The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven.
— Lee Eun-sang
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We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to…
— Allen Drury
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Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where…
— Gene Spafford
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We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of…
— Heinrich Burkhardt
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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
— Rudolf Virchow
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Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let…
— Wilford Woodruff
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I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by…
— Robert M. Lindner
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We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever…
— Pope Agatho
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I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started pointing out my…
— Robert Redford
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Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment!…
— Roger A. Pielke
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A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the…
— Dwight L. Moody
Who Wrote These Permitted Quotes
305 authors contributed a total of 367 Permitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: