Control Quote by John Stuart Mill

Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have…

— Henri Poincare

Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period when Observation,…

— George Henry Lewes

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

— Henry David Thoreau

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as…

— Albert Einstein

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy.…

— Stephen Fry

When we feel like we discover something, we are usually uncovering or realizing what has always been there. The laws of nature are always…

— Tara Stiles

In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind.…

— Raymond Geuss

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present…

— Alfred Adler

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

— Edmund Husserl