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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth. — David Viscott
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality… — Jonas Salk
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
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 nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to 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
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national… — Steven Chu
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to… — Charles Lindbergh
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and… — Charles Lindbergh
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of… — Linus Pauling
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the… — Thomas Paine
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and… — Albert Einstein
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity.… — Marshall Field
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...… — John Stuart Mill
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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