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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but…
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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
— Alexander Woollcott
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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save…
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Anything less then a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
— Stephen Covey
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I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.
— John McLeod
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Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant
— Charlie Chaplin
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