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Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

George Weigel

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Hélder Câmara

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

Hermann von Helmholtz

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Hermann von Helmholtz

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Howard Hodgkin

Um dem Terrorismus kein weiteres Terrain zu überlassen, ist der Staat von vornherein gezwungen, feste, von keiner Seite überschreitbare Grenzlinien des rechtsstaatlich Möglichen zu ziehen.

Horst Herold

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

John Gresham Machen

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

John Gresham Machen

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.

Jurgen Moltmann

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

Jurgen Moltmann

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Julian of Norwich

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Jackson Pollock

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

John Polkinghorne

Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.

Jack Provonsha

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

James Rainwater

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

James Rainwater

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Jack Steinberger

I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

Jil Sander

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Johannes Stark