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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger
Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems… — T. Harv Eker
Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in… — Wallace D. Wattles
If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and… — Wayne Dyer
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The… — Fritjof Capra
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of… — Richard P. Feynman
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond… — Isaac Newton
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere… — Florence Nightingale
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,… — Hermann Bondi
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… — Werner Heisenberg
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
What is known for certain is dull. — Max Perutz
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not… — Richard Dawkins
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and… — George Wald
From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there… — Albert Einstein
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove… — Mark Twain

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