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In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. — Peter L. Berger
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good,… — Charles Kingsley
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be,… — Nikola Tesla
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about… — Steven Weinberg
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
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
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,… — Walter Bagehot
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful… — Charles Darwin
Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success — Tim Field
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a… — George Boole
The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters… — Alvin Toffler
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People… — Edwin H Friedman

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