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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
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The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose…
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I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began…
— Thomas de Quincey
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
— William M. Evarts
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I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered…
— James Payn
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Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by…
— Hilaire Belloc
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She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I…
— Mary Johnston
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My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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I started as a director and just fell upon acting.
— Danny Huston
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TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His…
— Ambrose Bierce
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And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and…
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple…
— Rumi
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