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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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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
— Lord Chesterfield
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,…
— Florence Nightingale
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature…
— Henri Poincare
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A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
— Confucius
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
— Herbert Spencer
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What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command…
— Justus von Liebig
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If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence…
— George S. Clason
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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire…
— Cesare Beccaria
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First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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