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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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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish…
— Samuel Johnson
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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it…
— Marcel Proust
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
— Michel Foucault
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Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the…
— Billy Graham
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My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did…
— Albert Einstein
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
— Plutarch
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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