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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and… — Blaise Pascal
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most… — Claude Bernard
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion… — Heinrich Hertz
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the… — Bertrand Russell
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading… — Abraham Lincoln
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,… — Patrick Henry
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand… — Frederick Douglass
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the… — Noah Webster
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information… — Noah Webster
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,… — James Madison
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and… — Thomas Jefferson
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had… — Benjamin Rush
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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