States Quotes
11619 States quotes by 5153 unique authors
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due…
— John Herschel
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All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling…
— Richard P. Feynman
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In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is…
— Niels Bohr
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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain…
— Louis Agassiz
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To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in…
— Louis Pasteur
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Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia,…
— Dave Barry
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For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes…
— Barack Obama
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I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national…
— Steven Chu
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If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law...…
— Joseph LeConte
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In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but…
— Claude Bernard
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute…
— Steven Weinberg
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Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which…
— Harry S. Truman
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Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly,…
— Louis Agassiz
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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by…
— Aristotle
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Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity.…
— Muhammad Yunus
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
— Jonathan Swift
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