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Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive… — John William Draper
...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide… — Muhammad Yunus
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine… — William James
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can… — Kurt GÃ¶del
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to… — Baron de Montesquieu
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom. — Alice Neel
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't… — Edwin Land
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. — Samuel Johnson
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. — Francois Mauriac
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of… — Thomas Jefferson
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the… — Charles Lamb
Foosball screwed up my perception of soccer. I though you had to kick the ball and then spin around and around. I can't do a… — Mitch Hedberg
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham
As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this… — Thomas Merton
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and… — Ernst Mayr
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith."… — Bertrand Russell

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