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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a…
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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and…
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No person loving or admiring himself is alone.
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The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient…
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In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden…
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Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors…
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We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us…
— Pope John Paul II
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I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and…
— Albert Einstein
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In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then automatically finds…
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