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Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among millions of snails… — Stephen Jay Gould
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has… — Tryon Edwards
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays. — Philip J. Davis
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears… — J. Willard Gibbs
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. — William Godwin
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share… — Carl Gustav Hempel
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it. — Henry James
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits.… — Thomas Sowell
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes. — Norbert Wiener
The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness,… — Humberto Maturana
Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for… — Phyllis Schlafly
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but… — J I Packer
The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never come upon you.… — Charles Spurgeon
I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to.… — Charles Spurgeon
I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return… — Judith Butler
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. — Irving Kristol
Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in… — Peter Drucker
There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted.… — Queen Victoria
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about… — Anselm Kiefer
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and… — Edwin M. Stanton
I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are… — Tony Abbott
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. — William J. Brennan
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which… — Byron White
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain

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