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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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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they…
— Unknown Author
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Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually…
— Richard Bangs
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Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and…
— Michael Hardt
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I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.
— Paul McGann
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Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If…
— John Herschel
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Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you. Edward: It's…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and…
— Rachel Caine
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Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that…
— Paulo Coelho
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