#whole

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#astronomy #cast #correction #doubt #easily

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#creation #deafness #everyday #experience #familiar

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#cause #fame #far #happen #i

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#beauty #carefully #fullness #having #high

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

#halt #human #human reason #limit #must

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#constitutional #control #giving #government #heritage

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bring #charity #denied #did #door

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man. ↗

— Walter Martin

#adversaries #allies #because #bible #called

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#blue #bump #buy #chairs #full

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#ape #behavior #being #conscious #human