Simon Newcomb Quotes
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
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In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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There are or is indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
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A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
