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- The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle… — Louis Agassiz
- The law detects, grace alone conquers sin. — Saint Augustine
- The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as… — George Henry Lewes
- A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be… — Carl Linnaeus
- Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler
- It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only… — Oswald Chambers
- Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature.… — Henry David Thoreau
- I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot… — William Shakespeare
- The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city.… — Max Heindel
- Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies — Buddha