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Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there… — Izaak Walton
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system… — Thomas A. Edison
If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its… — Francis Crick
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of… — G. H. Hardy
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking… — Henry David Thoreau
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day. — Robert Browning
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… — Thomas Carlyle
You must be a deeply anxiety-ridden person, otherwise chain-smoking is not possible; chain-smoking is a by-product. You must be so concerned about a thousand and… — Rajneesh
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. — Man Ray
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant… — James Madison
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism… — Howard Stern
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of… — Paul Davies
From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that… — Johannes Kepler
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this… — Aldous Huxley
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it… — Tom Robbins
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour… — Rajneesh

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