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16024 Such quotes by 7769 unique authors
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Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own…
— Paul Davies
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Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a…
— Silas Weir Mitchell
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To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity,…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and…
— Catherine of Genoa
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It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven....We…
— Mark E. Petersen
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Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should…
— Unknown Author
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Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light,…
— Unknown Author
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An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than…
— William Crawford Williamson
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
— Joy Baluch
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their…
— Amory Lovins
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... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible…
— Albert Hofmann
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There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is…
— Robert H. Jackson
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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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Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole…
— Martin Nowak
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is…
— Yoshida Kenko
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,…
— Unknown Author
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Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul,…
— Harold Urey
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines…
— Hannes Alfven
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Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...…
— Unknown Author
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of…
— John Joseph Griffin
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On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes…
— Victor Grignard
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