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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
— Louis Agassiz
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to…
— Isaac Asimov
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True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal…
— Peter Kropotkin
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For me the beginning of all true progress in the woman question lies in women's right to vote...The strong the emphasis on…
— Unknown Author
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True progress is slow but sure.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more,…
— Oscar Wilde
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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