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Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… — Francis Galton
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it… — Anaxagoras
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of… — James Clerk Maxwell
Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over… — Rabindranath Tagore
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind… — George Boole
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to… — George Polya
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you… — Don Shula
I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where… — Ravi Zacharias
How do women still go out guys, when you consider that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat… — Louis C. K.
Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend. Leaving… — Charles Wesley
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It… — G I Gurdjieff
There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They… — Dave Barry
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by. — Thomas Carlyle
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one. — Florence Griffith Joyner
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The… — Alvin Toffler
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness. — Jeff Bezos
Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months — Gordon Moore
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… — Samuel Johnson
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? — Herman Melville
Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where… — Tim Ferriss

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