Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)
Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 72.
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)
“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.”
Xenophanes (-570–-475 BC) Presocratic philosopher
Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10
“Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.”
Sheri Reynolds (1967) American writer
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
Epistle to Mrs. Higgons (1690), line 79; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Contentment", p. 133-36.
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
La pensée ne doit jamais se soumettre, ni à un dogme, ni à un parti, ni à une passion, ni à un intérêt, ni à une idée préconçue, ni à quoi que ce soit, si ce n'est aux faits eux-mêmes, parce que, pour elle, se soumettre, ce serait cesser d'être.
Speech, University of Brussels (19 November 1909), during the festival for the 75th anniversary of the university's foundation; published in Œuvres de Henri Poincaré (1956), p. 152