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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought… — John Henry Newman
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my… — Henry Ford
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up? — Jean Rostand
Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, however,… — Oliver Heaviside
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said… — John Bunyan
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
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
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
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
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the… — Andre Maurois
I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this… — Abraham Lincoln
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the… — W. Somerset Maugham
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh

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