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When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction.… — Arthur Eddington
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is… — Steve Pavlina
Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as… — Tim Ferriss
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands… — Thomas Jefferson
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree… — Andrew Jackson
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,… — Frederick Soddy
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. — Raoul Vaneigem
Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact,… — Sean Stephenson
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you… — Sun Tzu
It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the… — Sun Tzu
Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to… — John C. Maxwell
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon… — W. Somerset Maugham

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