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If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what… — Lance Armstrong
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but… — Margery Allingham
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. — Don Williams
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they… — Carl Sagan
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular. — Werner Heisenberg
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,… — William Stanley Jevons
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of… — John Updike
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that… — Charles Lapworth
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths… — Gottfried Leibniz
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard… — Marguerite Yourcenar
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell. — Lance Armstrong
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. — Seneca the Elder
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are… — William Faulkner

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