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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I…
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot…
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is…
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more…
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined,…
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming…
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the…
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The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
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The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is…
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat…
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That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,…
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but…
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God,…
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Science and art are the handmaids of religion.
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Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,…
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat…
— Karl Pearson
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Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
— Calvin Coolidge
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The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Hunger is the handmaid of genius
— Mark Twain
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure…
— Andre Malraux
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