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In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to… — Maria Montessori
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory. — Charles Darwin
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be,… — Nikola Tesla
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist… — C. Northcote Parkinson
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the… — Hermann Bondi
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest… — W. W. Rouse Ball
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language,… — Henri Poincare
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them… — James M. Barrie
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving… — Alphonsus Liguori
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue. — John Owen
When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as… — John Owen
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every… — John Owen
Grace stands in direct opposition to any supposed worthiness on our part. To say it another way: Grace and works are mutually exclusive. As Paul… — Jerry Bridges
Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god,… — R C Sproul
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson

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