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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The creation of...

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency...

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With...

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Alexis Carrel: Science has to...

Alexis Carrel: Science has to...

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not...

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Alexis Carrel: Those who desire...

Alexis Carrel: Those who desire...

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride . . . the omnipotence...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: For those who...

Isabelle Eberhardt: For those who...

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly...

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Lewis Mumford: The artist does...

Lewis Mumford: The artist does...

The artist does not illustrate science. He frequently, however, responds to the same interests that a scientist...

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Leon Battista Alberti: Beauty - the...

Leon Battista Alberti: Beauty - the...

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing...

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Bernard Berenson: Genius is the...

Bernard Berenson: Genius is the...

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Source: In...

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Marcel Duchamp: The individual, man...

Marcel Duchamp: The individual, man...

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed...

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Stephen Hawking: If we find...

Stephen Hawking: If we find...

If we find the answer [the unified theory], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for we would know the...

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Stephen Hawking: It matters if...

Stephen Hawking: It matters if...

It matters if you just don't give up.

Source: In

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Alfred Korzybski: The only usefulness...

Alfred Korzybski: The only usefulness...

The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the...

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Sarah Winnemucca: I would place...

Sarah Winnemucca: I would place...

I would place al1 the Indians of Nevada on ships in our harbor, take them to New York and land them there as...

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Henri Matisse: Drawing is like...

Henri Matisse: Drawing is like...

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

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Wyndham Lewis: I feel most...

Wyndham Lewis: I feel most...

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no...

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Robert Motherwell: It may be...

Robert Motherwell: It may be...

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

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Charles Kettering: People are very...

Charles Kettering: People are very...

People are very open-minded about new things -- as long as they're exactly like the old...

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Alexander Graham Bell: Great discoveries and...

Alexander Graham Bell: Great discoveries and...

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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Henri Poincare: Invention consists in...

Henri Poincare: Invention consists in...

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations...

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