Possibly Quotes
1640 quotes by 1310 authors
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.
— Douglas Adams
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If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always…
— George Herbert
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern…
— Edmund Burke
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We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard…
— Richard P. Feynman
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One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely body oriented. Nobody…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
— Joel Osteen
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female…
— Gloria Steinem
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If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children…
— Stanley Greenspan
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Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.
— Dwight Macdonald
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Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the…
— David Lammy
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
— Honore de Balzac
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours…
— Joseph Addison
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In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited…
— Paul J. Crutzen
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Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we…
— Emile Borel
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
— Abraham Pais
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means…
— George Miller Sternberg
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