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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
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison
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
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our… — C.S. Lewis
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The… — Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole… — Italo Svevo
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs… — Steven Pinker
Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and samadhi. If your mind has… — Rajneesh
The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first. — Laozi
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the… — Leonardo da Vinci

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