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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At… — Werner Heisenberg
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being… — Warren G. Bennis
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome… — Ludwig von Mises
A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them… — Carlos Castaneda
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object… — Frederic Bastiat
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should… — Ludwig von Mises
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who… — Ludwig von Mises
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government… — Ayn Rand
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step… — Alexander Graham Bell
Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never… — T. Harv Eker
A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless… — Stephen Covey
Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a… — T. Harv Eker
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and… — Thomas Jefferson
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical… — John B. S. Haldane
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a… — Calvin Coolidge
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to… — E. O. Wilson
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses:… — Karl Popper

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