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Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without… — James Van Allen
Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole!… — Marcus Aurelius
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them. — Joe Abercrombie
Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain.… — Marianne Williamson
It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with Him… — Thomas Case
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the worse for Maxwell's… — Arthur Eddington
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things. — Matthew Tindal
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes… — Unknown Author
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come… — Tycho Brahe
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought… — Carl Mitcham
Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that… — James Hutton
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to… — John N. Bahcall
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Unknown Author
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier
There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours. — Unknown Author
I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to… — Ryoko Tani
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Unknown Author
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in… — Isabel Briggs Myers
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it… — Murray Kempton

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