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The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support… — Vincenzo Galilei
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a… — Peter Corris
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of… — Daniel Dennett
My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there for parents who… — Ana Ortiz
A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a… — Lee Ann Womack
They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise. — Bryan Brown
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most… — Eugene Ionesco
I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is… — Henry David Thoreau
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley
That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to… — Jack Lovelock
There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned… — Desmond Tutu
What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think… — Philip Ball
There is something outrageous about such a huge body of evidence being put together, then being confirmed in all kinds of other scientific disciplines, particularly… — Matthew Chapman
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the… — Darrel R. Falk
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is… — Louis T. Moore
The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not… — T. Coleman du Pont
A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at,… — Karl Philipp Moritz
I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have… — Adele

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