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- Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
- Author Unknown
- The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
- H. Stanley Judd
- There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
- Richard Osler
- If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self-interest would have to be served.
- Author Unknown
- To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness.
- H. L. Wayland
- One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
- Johnson
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