George Sarton Quotes

Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.

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• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• It's a pure dream team to work with Hrithik, Sanjay sir and Rakesh sir.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
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• The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

  

  Jack Hanna
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  • Tiger
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• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  

  Laura Linney
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  • Father
  • Stage

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
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• Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Science

• If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

  

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• It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
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• My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
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• I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
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• I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.

  

  Brooke Burke

• I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Universe
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• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
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• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  

  Origen
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  • Mystery

• It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Life
  • Time
  • Funny

• I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Work
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• Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.

  

  George Sarton
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  • Medical
  • Mathematical