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This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides… — Friedrich Wohler
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of… — Paul Halmos
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of… — Joseph John Thomson
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Charles Orville Whitley
Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of… — Al Barry
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral… — Richard Furman
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible… — William Lane Craig
I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life.… — Ana Ortiz
Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in Swat Valley, but… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source.… — King Hussein I
In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted… — Michel de Montaigne
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented… — Thomas Nagel
Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example. — Tony Robbins

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