Forces Of Nature Quotes - Page 6

• It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

  Hyman Rickover

  Nature, Science, Technology

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”

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• We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology.

  Shilo Shiv Suleman

  Moving, Technology, Together

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• If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

  Eddie Izzard

  Heart, World, Force

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...

  Neil Peart

  Stars, Dawn, Force

  "The Speed Of Love". Song by Neil Peart, Geddy Lee Weinrib and Alex Lifeson, 1993.

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• There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Healing, Giving, Pills

  "Neue Paralipomena (New Paralipomena)". Essay by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1893.

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• The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.

  L. P. Jacks

  Passion, Winning, Mind

  "Revolt Against Mechanism". Book by L. P. Jacks, 1933.

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• It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Order, Perfection

  "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 102, 1964.

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• Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

  Paul Davies

  Crush, Nature, Stars

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.65, Basic Books

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• If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Suffering, Clay

  William Jennings Bryan (1968). “The Credo of the Commoner”

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• It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Gymnastics, Want, Force

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?

  William Batchelder Greene

  Numbers, Perfect, Doubt

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• Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

  Fred Hoyle

  Atoms, Would Be, Chance

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• As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep our problems festering. Others are tonic and bring us beyond the limitations of our previous history. To be in a life of our own definition, we must be able to discover which stories we are following and determine which ones help us grow the most interesting possibilities.

  Dawna Markova

  Interesting, Toxic, Stories

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Humility, Men, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

  Nell Blaine

  Trying, Canvas, Methodology

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• General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

  Paul Davies

  Structure, Strings, Force

  " Einstein, the first spin doctor" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.

  Raven Grimassi

  Kings, Winter, Men

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• I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature…our destiny can change.

  Lynn Tilton

  Destiny, Thinking, Needs

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