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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help… — George Horace Lorimer
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to… — George S. Clason
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through — Lucretius
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task… — Aristid Lindenmayer
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. — Rudolf Virchow
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found… — Rudolf Virchow
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life. — Ivan Sechenov
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,… — Florence Bascom
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with… — Gregor Mendel
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good… — Helenio Herrera
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task. — Cyril Cusack
I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of… — Robert Adams
When you come upon a difficult task ... start. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this… — Bertrand Russell

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