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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 greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"
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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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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…
— John Herschel
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has…
— Bertrand Russell
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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place…
— Robert L. Park
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Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.
— Tina Fey
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must…
— Luchino Visconti
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Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post…
— Arthur Koestler
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the…
— William James
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
— Alan Alda
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