Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle
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CORETTA SCOTT KING Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.
MARIE LU We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by...
FRITZ ZWICKY I was thinking that I was gonna have, like, Jason Kidd or Chris Thomas star in the movie to play me.
BILLY CAMPBELL Thomas had no intent, nor did he harm anyone. He was wrong in departing from where he was, and he ac...
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KENNY G Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they mu...
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SøREN KIERKEGAARD The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, thi...
PAUL ALLEN Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don...
GREG GRAFFIN The more I tried to live my life on other people's terms, the more I kept thinking that I'm wrong; w...
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RICK JOYCE I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
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DOUG HARVEY Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without
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TOM HICKS I knew something was wrong.
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MORRIS GLEITZMAN I think something really wrong happened. I think she has passed on by now. She made the wrong decisi...
CAROLANN HUNT In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team fir...
PAUL BRYANT The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a le...
DENNIS PRAGER Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in Califor...
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DAN BRIODY You Moon! Have you done something wrong in heaven, / That God has hidden your face?
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HERBERT SPENCER The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the ...
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WILLIAM KIEFER When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.
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ROBERT FULGHUM I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or...
LIL WAYNE There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall with...
SAM HARRIS Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into mak...
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KAREN ARMSTRONG Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
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BILL NYE Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROT All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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JONES VERY There is nothing inherently wrong about science.
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HAFIZ HUSSAIN AHMAD I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift ...
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THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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