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The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove… — Willis R. Whitney
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to… — George Will
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying… — Thomas Kuhn
I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national… — Steven Chu
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. — Francis Bacon
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see… — Charles Spurgeon
If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it… — George Polya
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the… — James Clerk Maxwell
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which… — Joseph de Maistre
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out… — Abraham Lincoln
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow,… — Charles Caleb Colton
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green,… — Pablo Picasso
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way. — John Shelby Spong
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to… — Bell Hooks
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion… — Richard Dawkins

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