Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night; God said “Let Newton be!” and All was Light.
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Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be, and all was light.
T.Z. LAVINE Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
ALEXANDER POPE Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
ALEXANDER POPE And God said: Let there be light: and there was light.
BIBLE And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have...
SPIKE MILLIGAN And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He wo...
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DAVE THOMAS In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, "Let there be Light." And there was still nothing...
DAVE WEINSTEIN In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was s...
ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w...
ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still no...
DAVE THOMAS In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. The...
ELLEN DEGENERES When God said "Let there be light" Chuck Norris said "Say Please."
CHUCK NORRIS I'm so old old that when God said let there be light I was like "Well that's better"
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PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
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PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
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PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.
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PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
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PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
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PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
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PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
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PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
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PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of.
PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
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NICOLAS DE CONDORCET ...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.
IMMANUEL KANT Бог приходят ярким светом
В души к людям, тьмой одет�...
Уильям Блейк The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the law...
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In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet...
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A. E. HOUSMAN I was up all night. I had just lay down and closed my eyes.
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GARY F EVANS... Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The light of God is in you. Let your light shine!
ELEAZAR God is nature’s anti-dote to misery.
ABHIJIT NASKAR In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Whi...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light!
In our dark moments we cry; let there be ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always bee...
TERRY RICHARDSON She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her...
FRANK L. DESILVA The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
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BIBLE The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Glow wherever you go and let the light of God reflect in the world around you. You carry the light o...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us st...
ALBERT EINSTEIN That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright,
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why d...
JOE L. WHEELER The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another ...
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ROB SIMMONS That beautiful season
. . . the Summer of All-Saints!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and mag...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton...
DAVID BENTLEY HART As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light...
NICHOLAS GORDON It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.
JULIEN TORMA All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water)...
MARTIN R. LEMIEUX love with all your heart
life belongs to you
chase your wildest dreams
in hope they shall come true
...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it ...
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MICHAEL GRANT, LIGHT (GONE SERIES, #6) It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. D...
HELEN HUMPHREYS I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.
AZAR NAFISI В молчании — слово,
А свет лишь во тьме.
И жизнь по...
Урсула Ле Гуин Что за смех, что за радость, когда мир постоянно горит? �...
BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI Каким бы темным и страшным не казался тебе сейчас мир, �...
GOTHAM Грех не в темноте, а в нежелании света.
Цветаева М.И. Легче зажечь одну маленькую свечу, чем клясть темноту.
Конфуций অন্ধকারে চেরাগ জ্বালানো' আর 'অন্ধের সা...
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P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore...
P. J. HARVEY Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ...
P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B...
P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di...
P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information...
P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...
P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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