Obscure Quotes

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention… — Paul Cezanne
My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them. — Lady Gaga
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise… — Thomas Young
Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something… — Louise Wilson
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving… — Harold Rosenberg
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought… — Oscar Wilde
I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and… — Albert Einstein
For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to… — Peter D. Mitchell
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is… — Ivan Stang
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming… — Ernest Hemingway
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore… — Neal A. Maxwell
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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