"Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall……" — Francis Bacon
"Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period."
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261 Quotes by Francis Bacon
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Knowledge is power.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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More Annihilation Quotes
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation,…
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
— Sun Tzu
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Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation...
— Ludwig von Mises
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story…
— Winston Churchill
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
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Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the…
— Adolf Hitler
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now…
— Charles Darwin
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where…
— Robert Boyle
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Nature abhors annihilation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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