Thus Quotes
2771 Thus quotes by 1600 unique authors
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many…
— Robert K. Merton
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It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or…
— Unknown Author
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Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by…
— William Buckland
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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
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This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its…
— Unknown Author
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The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which…
— Eugene Wigner
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It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the…
— Douglas J. Futuyma
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But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God…
— Arthur Leonard Schawlow
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Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open…
— Unknown Author
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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
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I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You…
— Emma Stone
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The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but…
— Sun Tzu
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Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the…
— Sun Tzu
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure…
— Sun Tzu
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will…
— Sun Tzu
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When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.
— Epictetus
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In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected…
— Hannah Arendt
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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a…
— Immanuel Kant
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become…
— Joseph Butler
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Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are…
— Jason Stanley
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what…
— Percy Cerutty
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Thus we live, forever taking leave.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God…
— Meister Eckhart
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