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There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything,… — Yvon Chouinard
A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who… — Byron Katie
Everything government touches turns to crap. — Ringo Starr
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn… — Llewellyn Rockwell
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. — Unknown Author
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding… — T. Harv Eker
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The… — Fritjof Capra
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular… — Linus Pauling
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence.… — Louis Agassiz
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There… — Louis Agassiz
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community… — Thomas Kuhn
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into… — Benjamin Franklin
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer… — Richard Hamming
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;… — William Stanley Jevons
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that… — Isaac Asimov
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to… — Lewis Thomas
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field… — Thomas Kuhn
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. — Francis Bacon

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