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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of… — Francis Bacon
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably… — James Boswell
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which… — Harry S. Truman
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. — Mark Twain
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
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
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the… — James Clerk Maxwell
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not… — Francis of Assisi
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it. — Fay Weldon
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other… — Isaac Newton
There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.… — Aristotle
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's… — Bonnie Raitt
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But… — Frederick Soddy
Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and… — Werner Heisenberg
Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and… — John Arbuthnot
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind… — Romola Garai
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. — Richard Dawkins

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