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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain… — Leon Foucault
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides… — Friedrich Wohler
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics… — Vasco Ronchi
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is… — William Lawrence Bragg
The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its… — William Thomas Walsh
In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of… — Joel Barlow
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a… — Abdus Salam
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all… — Arthur Rimbaud
The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the… — Gabor Peter
Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and… — Ikue Mori
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according… — Sun Tzu
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different… — Louis Adamic
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or… — Nancy Kress
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. — Mark Twain
'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz… — Ned Block
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right,… — Thomas Reid
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. — Thomas Hobbes

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