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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended… — Freeman Dyson
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of… — Lancelot Hogben
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up… — George Eliot
I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes. — Kate Beckinsale
Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope. — Maya Angelou
There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist… — Mortimer Collins
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason… — Robert Macfarlane
The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. — Boyle Roche
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons… — David Bentley Hart
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison… — David Bentley Hart
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and… — David Bentley Hart
Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the… — Roy H. Williams
There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures… — Pam Houston
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is… — William George Jordan
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape… — Robert Winston
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life. — Bear Grylls
One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that period… — Lancelot Andrewes
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past,… — Jan Morris
The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man… — Henry Stephens Salt
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent… — Robert Jensen
Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can… — Paul Krugman

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