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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
— Johannes Kepler
As quoted in Arthur Koestler, The Sleep Walkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe (1959), 243, citing De Stella Nova in Pede Serpentarii (1606).
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As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.
— Andrew Schneider
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In Lothair (1879), Chap. 29, 137.
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Feeling weightless… it’s so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that’s dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable . . . and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you’ve been born again.
— Wally Schirra
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
— Johannes Kepler
As quoted in Arthur Koestler, The Sleep Walkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe (1959), 243, citing De Stella Nova in Pede Serpentarii (1606).
Science quotes on: | Accustom (52) | Accustomed (46) | Astrology (43) | Beat (41) | Compel (30) | Confront (17) | Deduction (82) | Dirt (15) | Dirty (17) | Faulty (3) | Foot (60) | Foundation (171) | Long (790) | Mathematics (1328) | Mind (1338) | Mule (2) | Obstinate (5) | Resist (15) | Time (1877)
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.
— Andrew Schneider
…...
Science quotes on: | Doctor (187) | Event (216) | Everything (476) | Happen (274) | Likelihood (10) | Man (2251) | Men Of Science (143) | Probability (130) | Question (621) | Science (3879) | Specific (95) | Statistics (155) | Tell (340) | Thing (1915)
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
In Lothair (1879), Chap. 29, 137.
Science quotes on: | Befall (2) | Book (392) | Clever (38) | Exist (443) | Fatal (12) | Great(1574) | Greatest (328) | Human (1468) | Human Race (100) | Invention (369) | Man (2251) | Misfortune (12) | Nonsense (48) | Print (17) | Printing (22) | Race (268) | Refutation (12)
Feeling weightless… it’s so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that’s dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable . . . and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you’ve been born again.
— Wally Schirra
…...
Science quotes on: | (2863) | Ability (152) | Bear (159) | Bible (91) | Comfortable (10) | Difficulty (196) | Dignified (13) | Dirty (17) | Do (1908) | Energy (344) | Everything (476) | Exist (443) | Exquisitely (2) | Face (212) | Feel (367) | Feeling (250) | Freedom (129) | Healthy (68) | Long (790) | Pride (78) | Solitude (18) | Sorrow (17)
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