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Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as… — Tim Ferriss
It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the… — John Owen
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before… — Charles Spurgeon
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay… — Alphonsus Liguori
Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly,… — Louis Agassiz
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science,… — Charles Lyell
The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated. — George Carlin
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system… — Thomas A. Edison
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made? — Henri Poincare
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced… — Max Perutz
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
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
No-one really thought of fission before its discovery. — Lise Meitner
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
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
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought… — Bertrand Russell
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
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins
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
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty

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