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In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no… — Benjamin Franklin
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer… — Pope Francis
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. — Heraclitus
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It… — Niels Bohr
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall… — Charles Caleb Colton
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for… — Wolfgang Pauli
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work… — Theobald Smith
In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious… — Margaret J. Wheatley
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the… — Francis Collins
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer… — John Updike
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. — Jascha Heifetz
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. — Alexander Pope
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. — Richard DeVos
When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it. — John Heisman
I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you. — Michelle Trachtenberg
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious… — Jerome K. Jerome
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton

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