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Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead… — Warren W. Wiersbe
By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which… — Walter Russell
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you… — T. Harv Eker
It comes down to this: If not you, then who? — T. Harv Eker
Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which… — Dian Fossey
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to… — E. O. Wilson
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender… — Thomas Huxley
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give… — Robert Frost
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good GÃ¶ttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building… — Karl Popper
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if… — Jacques Monod
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,… — Michio Kaku
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to… — James Clerk Maxwell

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