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Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain… — Leon Foucault
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of… — Robert Kanigel
We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat… — George W. Bush
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Unknown Author
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary… — Jerry Fodor
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads… — Elizabeth S. Anderson
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they… — William H. Calvin
The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is… — Hugh Miller
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… — Joseph Joubert
...what we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to… — Nicholas Stern
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars… — Nicholas Stern
The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine. — James Hansen
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on… — Sigourney Weaver
Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort… — Tom Ridge
It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method… — Albert Einstein
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways.… — Christopher Nolan
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble
Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the… — Linus Pauling
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history. — Douglas MacArthur
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form.… — Alexander Lukashenko
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of… — Marguerite Yourcenar
It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up until… — Chase Jarvis

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