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discovery may ratios
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters. Carl Sagan
discovery innovation age
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
discovery people important
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person. Bill Bryson
discovery people paper
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
discovery achievement age
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast. Bertrand Russell
discovery education environmental hosting spent
I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International. Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
discovery found remains tends
I think, just by the discovery and where the remains were found tends to, I think ... exonerate Gary, Mark Geragos
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I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here. Kurt Adams
discovery awakening events
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The outstanding performance by the Investments Office in the past year has matched a record of achievement over time that has earned (Chief Investment Officer) David Swensen and his colleagues the highest possible praise and admiration from their peers,
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
achievement challenges growing
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid. Cecelia Ahern
achievement able essentials
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
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The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie Walter Pater
achievement speak
The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently.
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The Achievement Scholarship Award was originally founded during the 1960s Civil Rights Act and is specifically for African-American high school students. It's a much smaller program but operates in a very parallel way.
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The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
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The achievement of a reasonably full degree of employment without accelerating inflation will require development of some additional tool. William Vickrey
intellectual losing debate
Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ... Barry Ritholtz
intellectual brain
He was not so much brain as earwax William Shakespeare
intellectual style canada
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia
intellectual weakness mysterious
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
intellectual widows want
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, Chris Christie
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In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. Edward Gibbon
intellectual politics moral
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. Frederic Bastiat
intellectual speak tradition
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
intellectual succeed individual
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself. Carl Jung