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The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we… — Thomas Jefferson
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is… — Thomas Sowell
In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing… — T. Harv Eker
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead… — Warren W. Wiersbe
In our course we teach that "no thought lives in your head rent-free." Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.… — T. Harv Eker
There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money… — T. Harv Eker
One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't… — T. Harv Eker
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a… — Bill Gates
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude… — Herbert Spencer
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that… — Isaac Asimov
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to… — Michio Kaku
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. — Benjamin Disraeli
No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research. — Henry Mintzberg
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so… — Paul Dirac
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the… — Hermann Bondi
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine… — William James
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles

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