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• Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Science, House, Dinosaurs

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• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  Alexander Fleming

  Team, Science, Discovery

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• Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details-the blade of grass, the Conus cedonulli, or the resonance levels of the carbon atom-also suggest a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist.

  Owen Gingerich

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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• Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.

  Julian Coolidge

  Art, Science, Consistency

  Julian Lowell Coolidge (2004). “A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those sacred hours! The joyful awakening, the reverent and tender embraces of my mistresses and older companions, the room filled with white frocks, like so many snowflakes, where each child was dressed in turn.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Children, White

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.

  Adam Nicolson

  Ignorance, Views, Essence

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• Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have general support amongst scientists with relevant specialist expertise. The broad wisdom of the IPCC is strongly contested by a small number, and a small minority, of reputed climate scientists. It is not contested by the large majority of specialists, and by the leaders of the relevant learned academies in the countries of great scientific accomplishment.

  Ross Garnaut

  Country, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

  Gregory Bateson

  Beautiful, Attitude, Ups & Downs

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• A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Letting Go, Cutting

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• Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

  Albert Einstein

  Challenges, Topics, Study

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• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Memories, Giving

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• Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

  Agatha Christie

  Women, Knowing, Intuition

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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• In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other ... and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis, I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Thinking, Substance

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• For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.

  Janine Benyus

  Song, Nature, Our World

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• A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

  Heather Donahue

  Sick, Live For Today, Entertainment

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• As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Real, Needs, Process

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• Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Culture, World, Way

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• Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

  James Mill

  Government, Should, Operations

  James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”

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• Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Boring, Worst, Educated

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• I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Reality, Effort, Historical

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• The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

  Hyman Rickover

  Military, Devil

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• What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

  Mark Twain

  Schedules, Crafts, Landscape

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• So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in front of me. It's as if you get every brochure for a trip you are going to go on and you get the minutest details of every step along the way. Well, I really doubt you're going to then get in the car and go. You know, it's like, why bother if it's all laid out in front of you?

  Steve Tesich

  Writing, Car, Doubt

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• It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

  Rupert Brooke

  Fun, War, Tragedy

  Rupert Brooke, Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1942). “Rupert Brooke: The Collected Poems”

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• Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Writing, Story Writers, Stories

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