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I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… — Hugh Miller
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or… — Michael Faraday
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for… — Bo Jackson
[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time… — Swami Satchidananda
There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you will not know… — Rajneesh
You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one… — Lenny Bruce
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to… — Ann Hood
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New… — Jamaica Kincaid
I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall. — Harry Bridges
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… — Thomas Huxley
Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT! — Robin Williams
How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the… — George Carlin
Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top. — Jennifer Pahlka
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,… — Steven Rose
Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?' — Jack McMahon
The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a… — J F C Fuller

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