Urbain Le Verrier Quotes
Without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky—had found the unknown planet Neptune solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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I grew up listening to old soul
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
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We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
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That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.
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To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
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As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
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The Radiohead record, 'The Bends' is my all-time favorite record on the planet.
