Would Be Quotes
9158 Would Be quotes by 5066 unique authors
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In my estimation it was obvious that Jansky had made a fundamental and very important discovery. Furthermore, he had exploited it to the limit of…
— Unknown Author
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For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected…
— Unknown Author
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The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in…
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which…
— Henry De la Beche
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If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
— Rudolf Virchow
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If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so…
— Elihu Thomson
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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be…
— Unknown Author
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It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or…
— Unknown Author
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is…
— Auguste Comte
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It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a…
— C. D. Broad
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Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system…
— Willy Brandt
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It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.
— Malcolm Potts
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I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected…
— Unknown Author
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When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that…
— Frank J. Tipler
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I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without…
— Nevill Francis Mott
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Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't…
— Deborah Pryce
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A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
— George Orwell
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Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to…
— Antony Flew
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I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
— Unknown Author
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Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a…
— Frank Warren
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I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was…
— Brian Welch
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I was new, and it was like that movie "Mean Girls". This clique would tease me and make up rumors about me being gay. I…
— Hayley Williams
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
— Oscar Wilde
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I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say…
— Missy Elliot
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To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
— John Stuart Mill
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