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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense,… — Baron d'Holbach
There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which… — Giordano Bruno
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots. — Robert M. Lindner
All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality.… — Rajneesh
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the… — B.F. Skinner
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and… — John C. Calhoun
I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as… — Abraham Lincoln
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of… — Adam Sedgwick
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology… — Hugh Miller
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a… — Camille Flammarion
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. — Oliver Goldsmith
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James

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