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“Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.”

Source: Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.”

Needs Wish Accepting Difficulty Stress Gods Will Resistance

Author:Dorothy Maclean

“We judge everything as good or evil and forget that resistance, pain and difficulties are there so we can learn when we leave balance.”

Pain Evil Forget Judging Balance Difficulty Resistance

Author:Dorothy Maclean

“In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.”

Expectations Difficulty Backgrounds Resistance Novelty

Book:The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

“I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of realizing the extraordinary power that such an explanation has in shattering rests of old world views.”

Thinking World Beautiful Realizing Views Seeing Difficulty Extraordinary Resistance Explanation World View Old World Shattering

Author:Carlo Rovelli

“Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.”

Thinking Humans Human Nature Goes On Difficulty Determined Resistance Despite Encounters Wasting Time Inclination Discouraged Persevere

Author:Brother Lawrence

“Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.”

Passion Energy Pride Fame Ambition Overcoming Difficulty Perseverance Resistance Encounters Proportion Persevere

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.”

Ifs Would Be Spiritual Difficulty Resistance

Author:Nilakanta Sri Ram

“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.”

Knows Doe Science Nature Existence Claims Difficulty Resistance Spite Vacuums

Author:Evangelista Torricelli

“You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.”