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We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later…

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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would…
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage…
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their…
Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance…
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…
We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the…
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity…

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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you… — Malcolm X
We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our… — Evan Parker
Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret. — Peter Agre
Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before....… — Spencer W. Kimball
Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research. — Malcolm X
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal
Our studies have shown that all cases of typhoid of this type have arisen by contact, that is, carried directly from one… — Robert Koch
Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we… — Joshua Reynolds
The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point… — Joshua Reynolds
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. — John Palfrey
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is… — Edward Gibbon

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