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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a… — Oliver Sacks
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of… — Thomas Jefferson
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own,… — Jacques Monod
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the… — Carl Linnaeus
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance… — Ambrose Bierce
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of… — Karl Marx
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling… — Richard P. Feynman
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. — Camille Paglia
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of… — John Stuart Mill
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be… — Erwin Schrodinger
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my… — Claude Bernard
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it… — Georges Cuvier
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared… — Charles Darwin
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is… — Steve Pavlina
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit — Muhammad Yunus
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different… — Immanuel Kant

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