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I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark. — August Macke
Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might.… — Sting
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple… — Robert D. Putnam
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis… — Andre-Marie Ampere
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was… — J. A. Ratcliffe
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
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
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
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm
Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble. — Giorgio Morandi
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the… — Douglas J. Futuyma
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple… — Barry Goldwater
My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes. — Yohji Yamamoto
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Oscar Wilde

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