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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their… — Gene Wolfe
Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a… — Douglas Adams
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the… — Louis Pasteur
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared… — Charles Darwin
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James
You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do… — David Lloyd-Jones
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its… — John Stott
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… — Francis Galton
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble… — George Washington
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the… — Noah Webster
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness… — Benjamin Franklin
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,… — George Washington

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