Best Significance Quotes
608 Significance quotes by 499 unique authors
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It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are…
— Linus Pauling
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon…
— Karl Pearson
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If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2…
— Ronald Fisher
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I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
— Adolf Hitler
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
— Gerhard Richter
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Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
— Meher Baba
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I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about…
— Richard Dawkins
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Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to…
— Rajneesh
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Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense,…
— Unknown Author
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If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children…
— Stanley Greenspan
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In all humility and sincerity we must admit a power higher than ourselves from whom is derived a positive moral code that will give our…
— Delbert L. Stapley
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And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are…
— Nate Saint
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not…
— Harold Jeffreys
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There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before…
— Christiaan Barnard
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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can…
— Unknown Author
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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make…
— A.J. Ayer
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The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did…
— Henry F. Schaefer, III
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by…
— Meher Baba
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A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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