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Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do. — Wallace D. Wattles
I will obey my soul and be true to that within me which is highest. — Wallace D. Wattles
The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions… — Byron Katie
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known… — Michael Faraday
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical… — John B. S. Haldane
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely… — Isaac Newton
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere… — Florence Nightingale
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but… — Henri Poincare
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
The true science and study of mankind is man. — Pierre Charron
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama

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