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I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,… — Edward Lear
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. — Alfred North Whitehead
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the… — Hermann Bondi
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. — Russell Baker
Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures... — John Owen
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally,… — Thomas A. Edison
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. — Louis Pasteur
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages… — Lawrence Block
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is… — Jeff Miller
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost. — Abraham Lincoln
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East - because no mother… — Rajneesh
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new… — Richard Dawkins
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. — Edward R. Murrow
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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