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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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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…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
— Louis Agassiz
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In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery"…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can…
— Haruki Murakami
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Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me…
— Charlotte Bronte
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You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely…
— Virginia Woolf
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I wandered all around the town. Until I chanced to meet a hobo who was lookin' for a handout on the street.
— Phil Harris
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