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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage… — Arthur Koestler
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. — Edmund White
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. — Alexander Calder
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or… — Gustave Courbet
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any… — Martha C. Nussbaum
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of… — Charles Darwin
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training… — Sharon Salzberg
Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a… — Albert Einstein
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a… — George Boole
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men… — Clifford Geertz
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. — Roy Lichtenstein
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and… — Michael Parenti
...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces. — Mao Zedong
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to… — James Madison
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show… — Meher Baba
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited. — Ronald Reagan

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