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I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to…
— Meredith Monk
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Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness.…
— Hugh Prather
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of…
— Charles Babbage
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will…
— Bertrand Russell
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Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they…
— Protagoras
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that…
— Charles Lapworth
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in…
— Philip Pullman
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine…
— George Wald
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this…
— Steven Chu
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the…
— Louis Pasteur
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The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,…
— Heinz Pagels
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous…
— Henri Poincare
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What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself…
— Francis of Assisi
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I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit…
— Pope John Paul II
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Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
— Alexander Eliot
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