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Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. — Bede Griffiths
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter… — Wilfred Trotter
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge? — Bette Greene
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,… — Gerhard Richter
All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of… — Dalai Lama
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,… — James Madison
I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate… — Rose George
The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing… — Charles Mathias
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. — James R Newman
It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background. — Pekka Vasala
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… — Henry David Thoreau
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a… — Carl Sagan
Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of… — Hugh Mackay
Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of… — Wendell Berry
Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the… — Vaclav Klaus
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
The natural object is always the adequate symbol. — Ezra Pound

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