Extremes Quotes

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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not… — Charles Darwin
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all… — Stephen Hawking
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions… — Alexander Hamilton
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity. — Robin Sharma
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,… — James Madison
I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S.… — Rosie O'Donnell
A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware of all that… — Rajneesh
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears.… — Rajneesh
The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort. — Pio of Pietrelcina
If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of… — Rajiv Shah
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on… — Nathan Farragut Twining
I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies. — Niki Taylor
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning… — Frances Ford Seymour
You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was… — Jim Courier

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