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The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… — Jacob Bronowski
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. — Leonard Maltin
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading… — Christopher Hitchens
Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest… — Benjamin Franklin
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings… — Johannes Kepler
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems… — Peter Medawar
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this… — Mark Twain
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God — Frederick Buechner
Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other,… — Francis Crick
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good… — Vincent de Paul
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is… — Swami Vivekananda
All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which… — Kimon Nicolaides
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves… — Theodor Adorno
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose… — Northrop Frye
Those who attempt to level never equalize — Edmund Burke
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. — David Hume
No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science. — Karl Barth

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