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You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. — Joan Didion

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong. — William Whewell

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude. — William Whewell

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell

My audience is God,
because who the hell else could understand me? — Margaret Atwood

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people. — Pete Cashmore

Uhm, Kevin ... "
"Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here."
Yes, this was definitely Forced Sex.
Thank goodness. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

In effect, fungi do their digesting on the outside. While we tend to process our meals in the privacy of our own insides, fungi prefer to eat out. — L.G. Nicholas

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. — William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.] — William Whewell

I lack nothing. I only needed myself. — Franz Kafka

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning. — William Whewell

Flowers will still bloom for the world~ regardless of whether anyone admires them or not. — Nina Montgomery

Usually I perform with dancers. — Grimes

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight. — William Whewell

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end. — William Whewell

It's the suddenness of life changing in an instant that makes me anxious when I sleep and makes me tell myself to breathe when I'm awake. — Jennifer Niven

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — William Whewell

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God. — William Whewell

For what I will, I will, and there an end. — William Shakespeare

every failure is a step to success! — William Whewell

To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. — William Whewell

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature. — William Whewell