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We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived… — Ernest Becker
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want… — Michael Josephson
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… — Mark Twain
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best… — Swami Satchidananda
We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we… — Sonia Johnson
On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that… — Yehuda Berg
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement. — Euripides
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who… — Brother Lawrence
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,… — William Stanley Jevons
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source… — Benjamin Peirce
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of… — James Clerk Maxwell
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our… — Lewis Thomas
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but… — Karl Popper
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler

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