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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man…
— Tennessee Williams
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An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in…
— Ronald Fisher
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
— John Herschel
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In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science…
— Rajneesh
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Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose…
— Harold Urey
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A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if…
— Konosuke Matsushita
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As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him…
— Red Smith
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When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like…
— Heather O'Neill
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Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our…
— Jacque Fresco
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There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever…
— H. L. Mencken
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The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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