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[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach… — Nehemiah Grew
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has… — Hannes Alfven
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
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a… — Paul Davies
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal,… — H. A. L. Fisher
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief… — Antony Hewish
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. — Ben Shneiderman
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence. — Jackson Pollock
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways. — Angela Merici
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front… — Olympia Dukakis
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because… — Cesare Beccaria
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist — Pope John Paul II
A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. — Pio of Pietrelcina
A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin — Dutch Schultz
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. — Robert Foster Bennett
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred. — Meredith Willson
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment. — Olivia Wilde
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times. — Joan Lunden
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the… — Eknath Easwaran
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I… — W Mitchell
A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures. — Michael Eisner
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of… — Raoul Vaneigem
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call… — Agatha Christie

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