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12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that...is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and… — Kim Du-han
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies. — Lana Del Rey
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J L Austin
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it. — Adi Shankara
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the… — Antoine Lavoisier
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter… — Louis of Granada
Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words. — William Shirley
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be… — Virginia Graham
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. — Washington Gladden
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real… — Ruth Hubbard
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. — Julian Huxley
If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart. — J. Richard Clarke
We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter. — Andre Derain
When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one… — AndrÃ© Brink
Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words. — Nova Ren Suma
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes… — Victor Grignard
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets… — Frank Kermode
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with… — Frank Drake
Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn… — Unknown Author
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's… — Giuseppe Peano
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of which has been… — Niels Henrik Abel

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