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The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden
... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. — Stephen King
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of… — Alan Watts
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — Unknown Author
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Unknown Author
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Unknown Author
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the… — Henry Ward Beecher

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