Doe Quotes

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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by… — Aristotle
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis… — Lewis Mumford
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing… — Thomas Browne
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — Isaac Newton
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though… — Aristotle
Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of… — Louis Agassiz
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
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
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and… — Bruce Nauman
I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well. — Andy Warhol
The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we… — Alphonsus Liguori
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time,… — Hermann Hesse
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. — Paul Bourget
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of… — James Madison
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh

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