Properties Quotes

238 Properties quotes by 190 unique authors

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. — Henry Clay
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. — William Ames
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or… — Robert E. Lee
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and… — Douglas Hofstadter
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of… — William James
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and… — Noam Chomsky
I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible… — Richard Branson
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of… — Jesse Owens
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex… — Claude Bernard
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own,… — Jacques Monod
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and… — Isaac Newton
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that… — Rudolf Arnheim
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer… — Hermann Bondi
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments:… — Isaac Newton
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
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life… — Antony Hewish
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable… — Cesar Milstein
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been… — Unknown Author
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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