Andrew Dickson White Quotes
The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.Andrew Dickson White
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams -
I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
Randy Travis -
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. Hinton -
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Beck -
I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
Felix de Weldon -
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Napoleon Hill
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Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.
Karisma Kapoor -
There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.
Taufik Hidayat -
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
Eddie Murphy -
There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.
Vera Rubin -
Reason is lost reasoning.
Antonio Porchia -
When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
Jean Patou
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I can't even tell you how many different shows I would love to guest star on because there's just too many.
Brian Dietzen -
I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
Clemence Poesy -
It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been watching it every single Monday when with my wife. It was like a ritual - every Monday night on HBO Nordic, we would watch 'Game of Thrones' together.
Pilou Asbaek -
I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.
Martha McSally -
Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.
Fred Armisen -
I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
Charlotte Rampling
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
Ramez Naam -
I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
Anson Mount -
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.
William Jennings Bryan -
The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.
Andrew Dickson White