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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community… — Thomas Kuhn
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no… — George Herbert
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and… — Charles Lindbergh
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he… — Walter Bradford Cannon
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential… — James Madison
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force… — George Washington
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line… — Piet Mondrian
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if weÂ´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in… — Sogyal Rinpoche
If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to… — Rajneesh

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