Wholly Quotes

630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a… — Oliver Sacks
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that… — Thomas Huxley
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while… — Henry David Thoreau
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had… — Benjamin Rush
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population… — Bertrand Russell
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self. — Hamilton Wright Mabie
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity… — Charles Horton Cooley
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his… — Charlotte Mary Yonge
Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it… — Brother Lawrence
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly… — David Brainerd
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of… — John Gorrie
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels… — Arthur Compton
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one… — John Tuzo Wilson
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it… — Brand Blanshard
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang… — Henry Margenau
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the… — Unknown Author

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