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• Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spring, Mean, Science

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.41, Booklassic

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• The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both-by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Years, Two

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• With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each throb has sent pain and decay to the lands whose day was done, life and vigour to those whose day was yet to be.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Life, Pain, Science

  Ellsworth Huntington (1907). “The Pulse of Asia: A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating the Geographical Basis of History”

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• Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

  Benjamin Rush

  Truth, Ignorance, Convince Us

  "Medical Inquiries and Observations".

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• I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, Poverty, Problem

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• My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved.

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

  Nature, Science, Medicine

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• The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of possibilities or even probabilities, without a basis of fact, it departs from the true scientific method and injures science, as most of the devotees of the new ism have already done.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Science, Office

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• Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Time, Science, Half

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• [P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person ... could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its time. He had only to find a value, even infinitesimal, for its attraction.

  Henry Adams

  Science, Moon, Squares

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• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

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• [T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

  Michio Kaku

  Science, Yeoman, Research

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Apr 13, 2011

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• There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

  John Keats

  Half, Use, Old Saying

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.414, e-artnow

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• Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Battle, Armor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.277, Penguin

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• If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

  James Madison

  Evil, Slavery, Consideration

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.135

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• Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

  John Dewey

  Education, School, Organization

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.411, SIU Press

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• I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Dream, Media, Hands

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• If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Communication, Passion, Men

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• eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web. The second thing was what Pierre said: "People have met their best friends on eBay. What this has enabled is truly online community."

  Meg Whitman

  Friendship, Ebay, Two

  "Q&A: A Talk with Meg Whitman". Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.

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• The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Want Something, Anna

  "This devil isn't Anna". MacLean's, June 30, 2006.

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• Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Sleep, Men

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• Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Inspiration, Billionaire

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• Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

  Kerry Stokes

  Honesty, Business, Block

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• He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Heart, Giving, Age

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