Peculiar Quotes

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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added,… — Samuel Johnson
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and… — James Bryce
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect… — Samuel Johnson
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social… — Karl Pearson
The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some of the most… — Humphry Davy
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit… — Charles Babbage
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form… — Benjamin Rush
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. — Alexander Hamilton
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at… — Unknown Author
The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to… — Madeleine Stowe
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass… — Archibald Garrod
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole… — James Hutton
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such… — Unknown Author
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Unknown Author

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