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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…

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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice… — Ephrem the Syrian
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind… — Dan Millman
By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently… — Mark Twain
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly… — Remy de Gourmont
Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through. — Leslie Nielsen
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him… — Kirk Cameron
Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE? — Robert Hunter
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture… — Plutarch
[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to… — Izaak Walton
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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