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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my… — James Rebhorn
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. — Marie-Louise von Franz
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,… — George Wilson
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in… — Heber Doust Curtis
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of… — Arthur David Ritchie
Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making… — Clive Woodward
Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever… — Unknown Author
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the… — David Lange
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are… — Thomas Naylor
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of… — William Lawrence Bragg
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and… — Andrei Sakharov
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — Unknown Author
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but… — Peter Boyle
If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have… — Diana DeGette
You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits. — Dusty Baker
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one… — Albert Schweitzer
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you… — J. Reuben Clark
And what is the greatest number? Number one. — David Hume
What I want is to be number one. — Steve Prefontaine
You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for… — Robert de Castella

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