#mere

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #could #fact #facts

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. ↗

— Charles Frohman

#i #make #managed #me #mere

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#establishes #invents #merely #nothing #philosophy

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#blood #brain #certain #cool #exists

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#academic #cannot #decide #differences #economics

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#alone #away #being #carried #danger

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#does #helps #merely #people #propaganda

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#bible #burden #dose #handbook #keeping

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. ↗

— Hermann Minkowski

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