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As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person… — Abraham Maslow
The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others.… — Sam Wyly
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for… — Thomas Sowell
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place… — Irving Kristol
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and… — Thomas Troward
Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and… — Thomas Jefferson
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,… — Edward Lear
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia,… — Dave Barry
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.… — Victor Hugo
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;… — Karl Popper
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others… — J C Ryle
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the… — John Herschel
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell

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