Without Reference Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name…
— Isaac Newton
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When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the…
— Eugene Wigner
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In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will…
— Stephen Breyer
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Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own…
— Graham Hancock
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If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves…
— Auguste Rodin
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It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
— Eugene Wigner
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The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
— William Saroyan
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It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
— Lee R. Raymond
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When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and…
— James Fenton
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
— Immanuel Kant
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any…
— Jane Austen
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The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need…
— Thomas Friedman
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The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with…
— John Piper
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But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes…
— Jean Baudrillard
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An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored…
— John B. S. Haldane
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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time…
— Benjamin Whorf
Who Wrote These Without Reference Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Without Reference Quotes as follows: