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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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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
— Jane Addams
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
— George Santayana
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
— Pablo Picasso
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…
— G. Stanley Hall
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Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however,…
— Alfred Einstein
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The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as…
— Mortimer Adler
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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…
— John Herschel
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Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
— Paul Twitchell
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
— Georges Braque
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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