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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God… — Isaac Newton
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity… — Albert Einstein
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include… — Bertrand Russell
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have… — James Bryant Conant
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of… — Victor Hugo
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate. — Hermann Bondi
In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but… — Claude Bernard
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living. — Francis Crick
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that… — Alexander Whyte
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against… — John Owen
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.' — J C Ryle
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word. — Jerry Bridges
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its… — John Stott
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all… — Lorenz Oken
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a… — G. H. Hardy
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator.… — Claude Bernard
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson
Style means the right word. The rest matters little. — Jules Renard
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei

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