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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was… — Anatole France
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… — Steven Weinberg
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my… — Rene Descartes
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time… — Albert Einstein
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will… — Louis Agassiz
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — Charles Darwin
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was… — Steven Weinberg
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. — Miguel de Unamuno
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is… — Karl Popper
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways… — Saint Augustine
It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of… — Therese of Lisieux
Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary — Saint Augustine
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to… — Pope Pius XII
From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others — Pope John Paul II
Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be… — Pope John Paul II
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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