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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was…
— George Orwell
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In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search…
— Louis Agassiz
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that…
— Antonio Gramsci
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The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out…
— Joshua Reynolds
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I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification…
— Marlene Dumas
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas…
— John Locke
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Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To…
— Robert Dallek
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My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general…
— Linda Hamilton
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