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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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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
— John Herschel
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God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when…
— John Cassian
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I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase…
— Gertrude the Great
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image…
— Simone Weil
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the…
— John Maynard Keynes
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In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which…
— Edward Everett Hale
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When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much…
— Ruth Stout
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All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our…
— James Atlas
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God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God.…
— Dallas Willard
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We become what we contemplate.
— Plato
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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