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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the… — Johannes Kepler
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40… — Al Gore
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I… — Ronald Reagan
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have… — James Bryant Conant
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty. — Marie Curie
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God… — J I Packer
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who… — Charles Darwin
Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day.… — Jesse Jackson
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a… — Michael Faraday
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the… — Michael Faraday
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. — Alexander Pope
I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest. — Charles Lamb
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and… — Laozi
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of… — Richard Dawkins
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine

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