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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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If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies…
— Jean Rostand
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When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and…
— George Shearing
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31.…
— Frank Sinatra
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I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
— Lewis Thomas
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If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two…
— Coleman Hawkins
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... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann…
— Yngwie Malmsteen
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... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and…
— Leonhard Euler
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
— John Herschel
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I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.
— Andre Rieu
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Misattributed to Johann Reiss. Probably by Peter Reiss. Die Chemie ist der unreinliche Teil der Physik. Chemistry is the dirty part of…
— Johann Philipp Reis
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If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all…
— Lewis Thomas
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