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John Herschel has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson…
— Dennis C. Blair
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In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well…
— Christina Aguilera
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The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But,…
— John Owen
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Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of…
— Dalai Lama
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
— Lucretia Mott
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role…
— Dan Simmons
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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years…
— Maxine Waters
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
— John Herschel
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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists…
— John Naisbitt
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great…
— Josiah Strong
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Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of…
— Carlos P. Romulo
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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...
— John Naisbitt
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