Joseph LeConte famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.
-- Joseph LeConte

#Inspirational #Character #Essentials
There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law... Not one jot or tittle of the laws of Nature are unfulfilled. I do not believe it is possible to state this fact too strongly... Everything happens according to law, and, since law is the expression of Divine will, everything happens according to Divine will, i.e. is in some sense ordained, decreed.
-- Joseph LeConte

#Believe #Science #Expression
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.
-- Joseph LeConte

#Spiritual #Truth #Tree
Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?
-- Joseph LeConte

#Future #Self #Flying
One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?
-- Joseph LeConte

#Animal #Self #Two

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the NATIONAL FORCES.

Joseph LeConte famous quotes

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