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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and… — Johannes Kepler
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high… — Carl G. Fisher
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as… — Charles Kingsley
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human… — Charles Lapworth
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its… — Louis Kronenberger
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified. — Niels Bohr
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg
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
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be… — John Herschel
Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and… — Werner Heisenberg
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. — Cecil Beaton
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict… — Clark Moustakas

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