Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Newton

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.

Isaac Newton

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

Isaac Newton

To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy.

Isaac Newton

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Isaac Newton

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Irving Howe

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

Harry A. Blackmun

We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.

Harry Belafonte

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this.

Harrison Ford

I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, May the Force be with you, I always said, Force yourself. ... I'll say again then, The Force is within you. Force yourself.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

Greg Ginn

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

Gerry Rafferty

No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

Joe Girardi

I don't think I necessarily have a philosophy where you can put a term on it,

We think it's the year of Philip Seymour Hoffman.

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Stephen Jay Gould

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.

Stephen Jay Gould

If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

The Yankees' philosophy has always been quality pitching and timely hitting. I don't know if we have the pitching this year.

The terminology and the signals were going to be different, but the philosophy was the same,

Kirk Douglas

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Kirsten Dunst

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Karl Marx

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Karl Marx

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Karl Marx

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Karl Marx

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Karl Marx

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.