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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
— Louis Agassiz
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Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like…
— Andre Comte-Sponville
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In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
— Marshall McLuhan
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... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does…
— Wallace Stegner
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Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the…
— David Hockney
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the…
— David Hockney
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Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by…
— Tana French
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The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims…
— Sam Harris
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This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the…
— Lucy Grealy
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