"In other studies you go as far as……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder."
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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150 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes…
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Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations,…
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye…
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can…
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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends…
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More Continual Quotes
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold…
— Samuel Butler
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In…
— Marc Chagall
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
— Thomas Paine
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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
— Trevor McDonald
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we…
— Herman Boerhaave
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Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act,…
— Unknown Author
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
— Tim Ferriss
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