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There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because… — Charles Kettering
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the… — Francis Collins
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of… — Luis Walter Alvarez
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. — Tom Clancy
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. — Walter Lippmann
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not… — Dennis Kucinich
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. — E. W. Howe
If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. — Robert Orben
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. — Derek Walcott
They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the… — Jeffrey Bernard
Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you - don't do it. Say… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring… — Sri Chinmoy
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;… — Sri Chinmoy
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one.… — Katharine Hepburn
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual… — Massimo Vignelli
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is… — Pema Chodron
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso

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