Properties Quotes

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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… — Irving Adler
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
In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi… — Ejnar Hertzsprung
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is… — George Fownes
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to… — Fred Hoyle
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your… — Joseph Brodsky
We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly… — Thomas Huxley
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our… — Thomas Jefferson
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. — Robert Huber
It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius! — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such… — Richard Dawkins

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