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He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good
But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.
Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.
Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.
I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.
There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.
The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate
Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.
This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Having chosen something worth doing, never give up, and try not to let anyone down.
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
There's a lot of music in my life, and I found it a very important part of my life.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.