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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power… — Dalai Lama
The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further. — Daniel H. Pink
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose… — Jonathan Haidt
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding… — Francis Bacon
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts… — James Bryant Conant
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what… — Saint Augustine
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. — William Shakespeare
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally… — Helmut Newton
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should… — Ludwig von Mises
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are… — Linus Pauling
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated… — George W. Bush
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness… — Gottfried Leibniz
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further… — Richard Goldschmidt
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove… — Willis R. Whitney
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying… — Thomas Kuhn
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages… — Lawrence Block

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