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The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in… — Martin Rees
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now… — Robert Hooke
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of… — Herbert Spencer
Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like… — Max Lerner
What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the… — Albert Einstein
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but… — Karl Popper
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the… — Steven Weinberg
I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him… — Teresa of Avila
The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and… — John of the Cross
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their… — Bertrand Russell
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this… — E. M. Forster
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. — William Hazlitt
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. — Horace
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear. — Rumi
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. — Edward Hoagland
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. — Frank Langella
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. — Confucius

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