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science uniforms taste
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. Charles Caleb Colton
science disorder cures
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
science mind cost
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.
science tolerance religion
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician. Alan Watts
science judging hammers
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. Dave Barry
science animal mph
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.
science simple water
Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!
science years careers
I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn. David Sarnoff
science oxygen breathe
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
dozen littles imagine
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. Arthur C. Clarke
dozen half six
Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other. Joe Garagiola
dozens employers four mainly offenders report sex states talking
We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names. Phil Williams
dozen enjoys fact few night people reminder street thursday
The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,
dozens expensive pairs
I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again. Bonnie Tyler
dozens literary nature rather second
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. Rick Perlstein
dozen govern managers prosperous republic undergoing united war wink
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. Gore Vidal
dozen psychotic themselves
The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief. Nicola Griffith
dozen heard maybe people proposal
The proposal has been panned by everyone I've heard comment. There have been maybe a dozen people in all.
biographies appetite immense
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Charles Baudelaire
biographies lost lost-faith
I had lost faith in biography. A. N. Wilson
biographies legacy trouble
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. Arthur Wing Pinero
biographies use actors
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt
biographies sides negative
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. Deepak Chopra
biographies bills stories
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. James McBride
biographies contradiction human-life
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
biographies admirable autobiography
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Hilaire Belloc
biographies unloved
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories F. Scott Fitzgerald