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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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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— John Herschel
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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers…
— Blaise Pascal
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A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical…
— James Madison
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It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers,…
— Paul Davies
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Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and…
— Lord Kelvin
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Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and…
— Mary Somerville
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The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.
— Philip Kapleau
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to…
— Plato
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When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real…
— H. L. Richardson
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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character…
— Plato
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