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- In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years -…
- Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
- The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of…
- Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is…
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- Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood
- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as… — John Adams
- I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10.… — Bono
- A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was… — Thomas Jefferson
- In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every… — Rick Wakeman
- Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman
- I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself -… — Sergey Brin
- My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller. — Joan Rivers
- [My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell
- Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the… — Samuel Johnson