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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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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel…
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the…
— Gregory Palamas
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A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to…
— John Herschel
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there…
— Carl Sagan
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