Viz Quotes
32 quotes by 25 authors
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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of…
— Oswald Chambers
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,…
— Carl Linnaeus
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The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very…
— Henry Oldenburg
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The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable.
— William John Macquorn Rankine
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here…
— Thomas Paine
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I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any…
— Thomas Paine
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For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them…
— Maimonides
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After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public…
— Stan Brakhage
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In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation…
— Astley Cooper
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Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention,…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office,…
— Granville Sharp
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually…
— Oliver Lodge
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Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.
— Torbern Bergman
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Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
— Ogden Nash
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The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights,…
— Lysander Spooner
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