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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now… — Robert Hooke
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer. — Heraclitus
And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it… — Anaxagoras
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.… — Alan Watts
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they… — Herbert Spencer
I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles… — Lewis Thomas
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my… — Rene Descartes
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that… — Stephen Jay Gould
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous… — Henri Poincare
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll… — Isaac Asimov
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on… — Martin Rees
Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay. — Drew Barrymore
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to… — Simone Weil
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. — Peter Drucker
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. — Jonathan Sacks
Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world. — Malcolm Mclaren
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson

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