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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to… — Charles Lyell
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect… — Galileo Galilei
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts… — A C Dixon
We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he… — Walter Bradford Cannon
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments… — Marcello Malpighi
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world… — Immanuel Kant
There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass. — Dan Marino
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how… — Henry Ward Beecher
Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… — Thomas Carlyle
I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the… — Alber Elbaz
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I… — Michelangelo
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting. — Agnes Martin
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the… — Agnes Martin
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits… — Gottfried Leibniz
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin
With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside. — Karl Lagerfeld
She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect. — Tom Ford
In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it.… — Swami Vivekananda

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