Books Quote by Thomas Sydenham

a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one…

— Frances Harper

The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as…

— Israel Shamir

“Some servent with no sense of the symbolic had kept the hinges well-oiled during the years of his absence,as if their marital life had…

— Courtney Milan

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

— Luc de Clapiers

“The day drew on, was swallowed in dusk. No bird called, no insect. Life in abeyance, the world itself grinding to a halt, who…

— William Gay

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

— Denise Levertov

The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

— David Hume

“The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to the rocks…

— William Jennings Bryan

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

— Konrad Lorenz

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker