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For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery… — Louis Agassiz
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering… — Charles Lyell
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the… — Linus Pauling
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in… — Amartya Sen
Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false… — Sheldon Lee Glashow
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found… — Willem de Kooning
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but… — Henry David Thoreau
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents… — Gerhard Richter
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money,… — Barbara Kruger
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't… — Lincoln Steffens
I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter. — Georgina Chapman
I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not… — John Wayne
I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked… — Stephen Moyer
I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good. — Paula Cole
Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have to give people your all. You… — Nicki Minaj
I don`t want to dress up a picture with just my face. — Grace Kelly
I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news. But having a picture of my foot on… — David Beckham
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision… — Barbara Fredrickson
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. — Jules de Goncourt
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that… — Georges Braque
Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down. — Kirk Douglas
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its… — Russell Baker

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