Unless Quotes
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
— Nikola Tesla
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Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws…
— Arthur Eddington
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may…
— Arthur Balfour
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the…
— John Owen
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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god,…
— R C Sproul
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Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly…
— John Stuart Mill
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The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by…
— Isaac Newton
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Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.
— John Dewey
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Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.
— Heraclitus
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...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide…
— Muhammad Yunus
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from…
— Francis Bacon
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Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit…
— Charles Babbage
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Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
— Bertrand Russell
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A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
— Russell Hoban
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Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats,…
— Ben Jonson
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Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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