Place Quotes
16265 Place quotes by 8295 unique authors
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If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of…
— John Owen
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Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others…
— J C Ryle
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If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?…
— Henri Poincare
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[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in…
— Roger Bacon
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An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,…
— Humphry Davy
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When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer…
— Pope Francis
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Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet…
— Michio Kaku
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The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
— Muhammad Yunus
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I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see…
— Muhammad Yunus
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For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments…
— Marcello Malpighi
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
— Francis Bacon
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Man's Place in Nature.
— Thomas Huxley
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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
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place…
— Archimedes
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The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a…
— G. H. Hardy
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or…
— Julian Huxley
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because…
— Charles Kettering
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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict…
— Clark Moustakas
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I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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