Relation Quotes

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The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the… — James Clerk Maxwell
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 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
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and… — Michael Faraday
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce… — James Clerk Maxwell
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place… — Archimedes
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not… — Dennis Kucinich
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -… — Abraham Lincoln
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,… — Frederick Douglass
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be… — Albert Schweitzer
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations. — Jackie Robinson
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into… — Strom Thurmond
The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of… — Thomas Huxley
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. — Louis Pasteur

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