Firsts Quote by Morris Raphael Cohen Download Open image “Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.” — Morris Raphael Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Firsts History Inertia Law Physics
History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“The laws of physics that deal with inertia also apply to humans, such that situations tend to remain the same over time.” — Del Suggs Copy Share Image
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“The Law of Inertia states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest. In… — HaveYouSeenThisGirl Copy Share Image
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Many concepts and ideas become laws in time, like the laws of physics. In time, many of these same concepts lose validity in favor… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I believe life not only obeys the laws of physics, but that life began because of those laws.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
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