"Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge……" — Willis R. Whitney

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• The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and… — Thomas Carlyle
• In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new… — Charles Darwin
• Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in… — William Stanley Jevons
• There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope
• Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It… — Alfred North Whitehead
• The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being,… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass… — John Dewey
• The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be… — Joseph Pilates
• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable… — Edmund Burke
• The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors... — Joseph Pilates
• No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of… — H. L. Mencken
• Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application.… — Christian Nestell Bovee

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