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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
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 folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because.… — John Charles Polanyi
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place… — Archimedes
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the… — Albert Einstein
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a… — Michael Faraday
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for… — Edwin Land
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all… — Katherine Anne Porter
I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you… — David Maraniss
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing… — Edwin Land
The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we… — Alphonsus Liguori
Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one… — Alphonsus Liguori
Philosophers are only men in armor after all. — Charles Dickens
Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom. — Bertrand Russell
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking… — Henry David Thoreau
Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an… — Arianna Huffington

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