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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
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It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.
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A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,…
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As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of…
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a…
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
— John Herschel
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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of…
— William Penn
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Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in…
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