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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would… — John Ruskin
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our… — Alan Watts
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that… — Abraham Lincoln
I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I… — Paulo Coelho
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which… — Johannes Kepler
I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the… — Charles Lyell
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And… — George Herbert
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it… — Georges Cuvier
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that. — Alan Redpath
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species… — Carl Sagan
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of… — John Owen
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few… — Douglas Hofstadter
Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on… — Isaac Newton
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he… — Walter Bradford Cannon
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern… — Edmund Burke
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume… — Cynthia Heimel
Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or… — Thomas Carlyle
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old… — Rajneesh

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