John Arbuthnot Quotes

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

John Arbuthnot

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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Gary Bauer
- Up
- Believe
- Government
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

Yves Chauvin
- School
- Student
- Chemistry
At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

Floyd Skloot
- Life
- Remember
- Mother
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo
- Fall
- Woman
- Grace
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

J. B. Pritzker
- Weapons
- Nuclear Weapons
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

Harold H. Greene
- Trying
- Law
- Justice