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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
— John Herschel
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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us…
— Gerard De Nerval
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great…
— William Cobbett
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My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor…
— William Godwin
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For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush…
— Edith Wharton
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Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
— Ogden Nash
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the…
— William Wordsworth
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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that…
— Ian Mcewan
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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather…
— Studs Terkel
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