Belief Quote by Francesco Redi

Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in…

— Anonymous

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

— Thomas Jefferson

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

— George Washington

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes

If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult…

— Barbra Streisand

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

— Aesop

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do…

— Pablo Casals

“All this world's glory seemeth vain to me, And all their shows but shadows, saving she.”

— Edmund Spenser

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…

— Michel de Montaigne

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have…

— Alfred Marshall

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow