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21465 quotes by 10285 authors
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By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which…
— Walter Russell
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Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter…
— Margaret Halsey
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Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention?…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus…
— Ken Wilber
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.
— T. Harv Eker
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You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject…
— Thomas Jefferson
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'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that…
— Hermann Joseph Muller
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Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which…
— Johannes Kepler
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
— Seneca the Younger
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Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender…
— Thomas Huxley
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
— James Anthony Froude
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
— Georges Cuvier
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The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery…
— Louis Agassiz
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give…
— Robert Frost
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I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,…
— Edward Lear
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It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.…
— Johannes Kepler
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches…
— Francis Bacon
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia,…
— Dave Barry
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