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• To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Perfect

  Isaac Asimov (1968). “The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences”

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• The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

  George Herbert

  School, Science, Acquisition

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• But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Science, Infinite

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1112, Princeton University Press

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• For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to defend the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe our nation should set a goal that unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

  "Parental Notification Law". Jun 7, 1999.

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• Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Gratitude, Burden

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• I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Powerful, Men, Self

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• Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more so: for though it is only of late, that it has been looked upon in that light, the great progress already made in Chymical knowledge, gives us a pleasant prospect of rich additions to it. The Science is now studied on solid and rational grounds. While our knowledge is imperfect, it is apt to run into error: but Experiment is the thread that will lead us out of the labyrinth.

  Joseph Black

  Running, Art, Science

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• The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called.

  Marin Mersenne

  Confused, Science, Hands

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• Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

  William James

  Mean, Language, Communicate

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• You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Letting Go, Regret, Eye

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• I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nice

  "10 Times Emma Watson Ruled At Life" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2014.

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• I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Imperfect World, Growing

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• For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Religious, Flower

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Views, Redemption, Gains

  Friedrich Schleiermacher (2016). “The Christian Faith”, p.338, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

  Branford Marsalis

  Inspiring, Men, Perfect

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• If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

  Benito Perez Galdos

  Wine, Sherry, Made

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• Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.

  Carl Sagan

  Sweet, Truth, Light

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, p.407, Ballantine Books

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• Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

  Paul Samuelson

  Perfect, Competition, Tools

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (2014). “Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic Analysis: Selected Essays”, p.419, Cambridge University Press

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• It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Different Opinions, Economics

  "On Liberty: Mill's Works".

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• Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

  Winston Churchill

  Imperfect World, Goal, Brainstorming

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning and purpose. Nothing happens of itself. Nowhere, in the age-old experience of man, has continued order been found except as the product of intelligent direction.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Intelligent, Men, Order

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• Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Law, Imperfection, Eternity

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Calvinism”, p.10

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• Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Stress, Future

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

  Ronald Reagan

  Humble, Government, Order

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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