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But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God… — J I Packer
Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said… — John Bunyan
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others… — J C Ryle
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
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 may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science,… — Charles Lyell
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that… — Albert Einstein
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time… — Arthur C. Clarke
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the… — James Clerk Maxwell
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
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no… — Benjamin Franklin
No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will… — Ronald Fisher
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he… — Walter Bradford Cannon
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not… — Francis Pharcellus Church
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest,… — George Polya
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
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell

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