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287 quotes by 244 authors

There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that… — Ramana Maharshi
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. — Confucius
When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run… — Jonathan Swift
Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God. — Wallace D. Wattles
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition… — Reginald Fessenden
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The… — Henry Ward Beecher
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of… — Frances Ford Seymour
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and… — Justus von Liebig
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by… — David Ricardo
The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in… — Marcel Alexandre Bertrand
[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation… — Thomas George Bonney
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained… — Stephen Stigler
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline… — Derek Barton
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was… — J. A. Ratcliffe
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Clifford Shull
[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation. — R. J. Reynolds

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