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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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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the…
— Ruth Benedict
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make…
— Yogi Berra
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Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at…
— Arnold Beichman
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Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of…
— Thomas Sowell
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The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with…
— Louis Agassiz
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My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up…
— Kurt Cobain
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All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions…
— Meher Baba
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Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple.
— Naoto Fukasawa
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Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
— Ruby Dee
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If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is…
— Adyashanti
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