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All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day… — Thomas Huxley
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account. — Galileo Galilei
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their… — Gene Wolfe
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become… — Martin Sheen
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different… — Immanuel Kant
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you… — Twyla Tharp
Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the… — Julie Gregory
He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for… — Thomas Jefferson
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be… — Malcolm Muggeridge
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it… — Fulton J. Sheen

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