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I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced… — Charles Darwin
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology… — Hugh Miller
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely… — James Clerk Maxwell
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread… — Louis Agassiz
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. — Cindy Sherman
There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something… — Nhat Hanh
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,… — Laurence Sterne
While we read history we make history. — George William Curtis
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. — Roald Dahl
I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,… — Abraham Lincoln
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington

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