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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he…
— P T Barnum
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If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
— Vinoba Bhave
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
— Carrot Top
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive…
— Philip Sidney
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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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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and…
— Cyril Connolly
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite…
— Cesar Chavez
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the better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
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Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but…
— Bill Frist
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