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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the… — Hermann Bondi
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. — Russell Baker
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty… — Kathleen Blanco
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base.… — Muhammad Yunus
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
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason. — Robert Browning
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;… — Stephen King
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. — Dorothy L. Sayers
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw… — Elbert Hubbard
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,… — Abraham Lincoln
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… — Thomas Jefferson

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