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It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form… — Charles Kingsley
No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems… — Peter Medawar
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an… — Garrett Hardin
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin… — Henry Ford
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the… — Ludwig von Mises
Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal… — Dennis Kucinich
It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too. — Larry Goetz
You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders. — Florence Ellinwood Allen
Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence… — Kenny Smith
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies… — Samuel Adams
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts. — Winston Churchill
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell
She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and… — Jose Rizal
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but… — John Donne
When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,… — Jonathan Clements
...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a… — Walter Wink
To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks… — Richard P. Feynman
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. — Bill Veeck
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the… — Neale Donald Walsch
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from… — Ravi Zacharias

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