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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but…
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You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw…
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He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.
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Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled.…
— Margaret Atwood
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Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new…
— Mary Pope Osborne
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I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his…
— Armistead Maupin
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Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him…
— Richard Widmark
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Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the…
— Michael Stipe
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The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what…
— Eric Hoffer
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