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The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any… — Henry David Thoreau
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many… — Bill Gates
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what… — Saint Augustine
Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious… — Brigit of Kildare
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. — Wislawa Szymborska
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are… — William Faulkner
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. — Ambrose Bierce
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. — Clarence Darrow
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last. — Muhammad Ali
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. — Chris Cornell
I would visualize the best- and worst-case scenarios. Whether I get disqualified or my goggles fill up with water or I lose my goggles or… — Michael Phelps
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca the Elder
If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of… — Rajneesh

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