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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what… — Hippocrates
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and… — Joseph Henry
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in… — Norman Mailer
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up? — Jean Rostand
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time… — Theobald Smith
You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that… — Alexander Whyte
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the… — John Owen
After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see… — Charles Spurgeon
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
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the… — Arthur C. Clarke
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread… — Louis Agassiz
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength. — Ivan Panin
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln

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