Purpose Quotes

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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.… — Richard Dawkins
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose. — Margaret Fuller
Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole as clearly and… — George Polya
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the… — John Herschel
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human… — Ambrose Bierce
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,… — Henri Poincare
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be… — Richard Dawkins
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes… — Charles Kettering
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this… — Elizabeth Hardwick
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution… — Abraham Lincoln
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it… — Frederick Douglass
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
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a… — Herbert Croly
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and… — Thomas Jefferson

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