Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Servetus

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

Brian Schmidt

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

Lord Mansfield

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Chan Gailey

Heavens no. We thought we'd be holding on.

William Alger

The moon is a silver pinhead vastThat holds the heavens tent-hangings fast.

William Alger

The moon is a silver pinhead vast That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast.

Isaac Newton

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

William Shakespeare

The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place.

John Donne

This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.

David Douglass

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Jacques Rossouw

We set out to test a promising but unproven hypothesis that has proven to be less promising than we anticipated.

Paul Mlakar

It is a hypothesis that we are looking at.

Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Isaac Newton

I do not feign hypotheses.

Edward de Bono

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

Henri Poincare

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

James J. Gibson

The hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.

David Rakoff

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Brooke Shields

From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

Said Nursi

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

Tony Rice

I knew it was special enough to leave everything I had in Kentucky. Not only would I do it again, I would do it precisely the same way. I already had this new music in my blood. The whole process of doing that was innate leap into some other music form. I didn't have a choice.

Ingrid Olson

This favoritism, while poorly understood, seems to be innate and cross-cultural. Studies suggest that even infants prefer pretty faces.

Zhuangzi

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Jim Colborn

It's like something got reconciled in him, ... who he was and who he can be.

Pat Harris

Can you reconcile the Scott Peterson you know with the person who could have done this?

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Angela Ross

We're all spread out now. We just come here - it's just like she was Big Mama.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Georg Petersen

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.