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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 have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for…
— Hilaire Belloc
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
— Hilaire Belloc
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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…
— Louis Agassiz
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage…
— Alan Moore
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People with autism never, ever feel at ease, wherever we are. Because of this, we wander off - or run away -…
— Naoki Higashida
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
— Edmond Jabes
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is…
— Robert Fulghum
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Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.
— Christopher Cokinos
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Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to…
— Steven James
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Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from…
— Don DeLillo
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We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
— Grace King
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by…
— Carson McCullers
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