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The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to… — Unknown Author
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,… — David Boaz
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible. — Roger McDonald
Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will… — Unknown Author
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,… — Unknown Author
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis… — Andre-Marie Ampere
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. — Unknown Author
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles… — Percy Williams Bridgman
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given… — Robert Mayer
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — Unknown Author
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Unknown Author
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and… — Alexander Fleming
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the… — Elisha Gray
To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on responsibility yourself. It's not enough… — Jackie Huggins
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something… — Louise Wilson
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and… — Rei Kawakubo
In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate. — Michael Mullen

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