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Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the…

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,…
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the…
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a…
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying…
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I…
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the…
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup…
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…

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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against… — Ezra Taft Benson
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. — Henry David Thoreau
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is… — Charles Lindbergh
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed… — Auguste Comte
Great intellects are skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from… — Yasmina Khadra
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not… — Charles Simic
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. — Edward Thorndike
...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity… — John Blacking

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