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14221 quotes by 8296 authors
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During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the…
— Linus Pauling
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It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,…
— Humphry Davy
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases…
— Francis Galton
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[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general…
— Frederick Soddy
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We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;…
— Muhammad Yunus
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But…
— Frederick Soddy
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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different…
— Immanuel Kant
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Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
— Henri Poincare
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The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
— Elbert Hubbard
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We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.
— Frank A. Clark
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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from…
— Edward Sapir
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I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best…
— Abraham Lincoln
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