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It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. — Carl Van Vechten
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. — Cesare Lombroso
When you feel colors, you will understand the why of their forms. — Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what… — Eyvind Earle
Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light,… — Philipp Otto Runge
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the… — William Borah
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than… — Marjory Stephenson
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and… — Maurice Wilkins
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. — Michel Foucault
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Fritz Muller
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten… — William Harvey
When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within… — Bokar Rinpoche
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of… — Hilla von Rebay
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and… — Sri Aurobindo
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of… — Bede Griffiths

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