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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us. — John Updike
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. — Unknown Author
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie
Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look… — Unknown Author
All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing. — Averroes
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The… — Tsung-Dao Lee
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine
It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another. — Henry de Montherlant
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. — Judith Moore
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has… — Unknown Author
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life,… — Anna Garlin Spencer
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. — Andre Gide
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters,… — James Henley Thornwell
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject.… — Marjory Stephenson
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed… — Gregor Mendel
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by… — William Buckland
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Unknown Author
The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart;… — Marin Mersenne
Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems. — Stanford Moore
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.… — Nelson Goodman
Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but reasoning… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

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