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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to. — Arthur Eddington
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove… — Willis R. Whitney
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack… — John Desmond Bernal
Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to… — George W. Bush
It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched… — Camille Flammarion
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar… — Mahatma Gandhi
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while… — Benoit Mandelbrot
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. — David Brooks
Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal… — Sri Chinmoy
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard
The hardest part of change is going through the unknown. — Robert Kiyosaki
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him. — Kim Edwards
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,… — Thomas Gray
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held… — Barry Long

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