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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing…
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The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.
— William Shakespeare
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In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
— Samuel Beckett
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That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you…
— Lorrie Moore
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For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly…
— Sylvia Plath
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The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The…
— Thomas Hardy
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