Quotes of: Von Keyword

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

Julius Wellhausen

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.

Julius Wellhausen

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.

Julius Wellhausen

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

Julius Wellhausen

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Karl Barth

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

Karen Hughes

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Luis Walter Alvarez

long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

Luther Burbank

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

Luther Burbank

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

Libby Houston

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Lord Kelvin

The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on.

Lord Kelvin

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

Laurent Lamothe

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Lawrence Clark Powell

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

Linus Pauling

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'

Lela Rose

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Lisa Randall

There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.

Lisa Randall

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

Lisa Randall