Noah Porter (Noah Thomas Porter III) Quotes
Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.
Noah Porter
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
Irving Langmuir
Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
Vannevar Bush
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
Augustus
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
If we could have ended the war by showing the power of science without killing a single person, all of us would now be happier, more reasonable and much more safe.
Edward Teller
'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
Elizabeth Kenny
Sharon Shinn is a lover of words and a builder of worlds. She makes science-fiction seem like fantasy. Her characters jump off the page, finding their way under your skin and into your heart.
Alethea Kontis
If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.
Dalai Lama
While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.
Robert Wilkie
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Jack Welch
Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.
Noah Porter
