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Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why… — Dmitri Mendeleev
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Unknown Author
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be… — Henry De la Beche
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact… — Gottlob Frege
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance… — Richard Owen
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade. — Barnabe Barnes
When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within… — Bokar Rinpoche
If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of… — John Stuart Mill
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple… — Barry Goldwater
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law. — Unknown Author
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as… — Victor J. Stenger
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,… — Friedrich Engels
I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the… — Joschka Fischer
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with… — Emile Borel
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. — Linda Goodman
Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till… — Ted Olson
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a… — Lucian
We distinguish integrity as a phenomenon of the objective state or condition of an object, system, person, group, or organizational entity, and define integrity as:… — Werner Erhard
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as… — John Fowles
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz… — Unknown Author

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