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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will…
— Aristotle
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion…
— Galileo Galilei
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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the…
— David Hume
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If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.
— Arnold Sommerfeld
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
— Henri Poincare
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The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take…
— Paul Dirac
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If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run…
— Bo Jackson
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The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils…
— Richard Dawkins
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The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.
— George Orwell
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The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that…
— Eudora Welty
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you…
— Heraclitus
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
— Alexander Pope
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The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food…
— Abraham Lincoln
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
— James Madison
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done…
— Samuel Johnson
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