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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge… — John Mortimer Smith
There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on… — Unknown Author
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he… — Yves Klein
Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. — Carlos Mesa
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to… — Unknown Author
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from… — Henry Edward Armstrong
Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore,… — T. Harv Eker
If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek… — John Frederick Demartini
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and… — Maurice Wilkins
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. — Michel Foucault
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to… — Sarah MacLean
We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to… — Russell M. Nelson
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most… — Eugene Ionesco
You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential. — Jonathan Ive
No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people… — Don Kardong
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole. — J. Boone

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