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“A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!”

Wells Said Results Existence Conditions Produce Philosopher Quantum

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.”

Ifs Doe Desire Effects Produce Stones Philosopher Riches Contentment Alchemist

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.”

Ifs Said Use Shows Lying Desire Produce Industry One Day Waste Labor Plant Philosopher Italian Estates Cultivation Negligence

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.”

“The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.”

Persons Evil Results Produce Fortune Philosopher Statements Good And Evil Balanced French Philosopher

Author:Richard Arnold Epstein

“I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists.”

People Thinking Years Kind Art Made States Seems Certain Produce Scientist Philosopher Extremes Brilliant Observation Depressive

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.”

Produce Stones Constitution Instinct Philosopher Golden

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.”

Way Stills Whole Lasts Order Force Social Influence Middle Effects Century Produce Smart Philosopher Realms Mainstream Countenance Mental Power Physical Force

Author:David Papineau