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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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To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that…
— John Playfair
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The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning…
— Unknown Author
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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
— Arthur Miller
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It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.
— Ptolemy
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Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
— Nancy Mitford
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The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing…
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is…
— Louis Agassiz
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Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.
— Frank Rich
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Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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