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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end. — Paul Erdos
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
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist… — C. Northcote Parkinson
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. — Mark Twain
[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. — Francis Bacon
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. — Francis of Assisi
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. — Philip Roth
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that… — Robert H. Jackson
I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the… — Billy Graham
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that… — John Shelby Spong
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. — Lucretius
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. — Coco Chanel

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