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If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are…

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If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though…
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you…
Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has…
Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we…
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer…
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on…
Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . .…
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them…
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough… — Beryl Markham
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . .… — Soren Kierkegaard
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns… — B.F. Skinner
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. — Epicurus
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but… — Irving Langmuir
. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the… — Ernest Holmes
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead… — Henry Ward Beecher
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that… — Jim Cornette
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and… — Robert Baden-Powell
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his… — Napoleon Hill
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of… — George Iles

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