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Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the… — Gaston Bachelard
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. — John Donne
What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and… — Bruce Nauman
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating… — Aristotle
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson
I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point. — Abraham Lincoln
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which… — Thomas Jefferson
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and… — Thomas Jefferson
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins. — Ben Jonson
If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day. — H. L. Hunt
I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that… — Jerry Falwell
You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun… — Zac Efron
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out… — Peter Kreeft
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point… — Richard Dawkins

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