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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,… — William Stanley Jevons
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences,… — Roderick Murchison
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.… — Vaclav Havel
We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make… — Tim Cook
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times… — Bill Gates
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can… — Gary Hamel
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has… — Rollo May
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists… — Victor Hugo
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches… — Francis Bacon
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be… — John Herschel
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya
The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with… — Galileo Galilei
Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a… — Mitch Hedberg
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days. — W.C. Fields
Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general the whole of… — Pope Benedict XVI
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held… — Barry Long
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the… — Thomas More

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