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The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole… — John Donne
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. — Ted Andrews
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding… — Lewis Grizzard
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of… — John Maynard Keynes
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent… — Shimon Peres
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the… — Johannes Kepler
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and… — Johannes Kepler
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced… — Charles Darwin
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram

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