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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning,…
— Lewis Thomas
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In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that…
— Jimmy Carter
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Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or…
— Charles Koch
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes,…
— Rajneesh
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Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No! In that emptiness…
— Rajneesh
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Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be…
— Margaret Whitlam
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On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow…
— Simon Conway Morris
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We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.
— Jim Broadbent
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
— Irving Fisher
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When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.
— Ostad Elahi
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Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the…
— Wilson Greatbatch
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Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.
— Frank Yerby
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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective,…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical…
— James Dwight Dana
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