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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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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
— Mary Astell
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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
— A. Philip Randolph
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
— William Cowper
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
— Walter Lippmann
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
— John Herschel
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The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
— G. H. Hardy
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When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is…
— Samuel Johnson
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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in…
— Lahiri Mahasaya
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings;…
— Anne Baxter
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If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
— Polybius
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