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Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

“Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.”

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Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian known for her research on women's history. Her book 'The American Woman: Her Past and Present' had a profound impact on gender studies. more

“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.”

World May Long Country Stuff Millions Growing Revolution India England Blue China Japan Substitutes Articles Mexico Other Countries Coal Fossils Annuals Crimson Indigo

Author:August Wilhelm von Hofmann

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”

Ifs Needs May Has Beens Art Ideas Done Together Mother Values Imagination Memories Results Industry Originals Invention Originality Engineering Fertile Crank Prevision

Author:Elihu Thomson

“To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]”

Reason Higher University Department Target Funding Philanthropic

Author:Wickliffe Rose

“First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.”

Firsts I Can Government Forget Responsibility Leader Alternatives Opposition

Author:Stephen Harper

“The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:—“homeostasis” to designate stability of the organism; “homeostatic conditions,” to indicate details of the stability; and “homeostatic reactions,” to signify means for maintaining stability.”

“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.”

“At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.”

Used Imagination Research Tools Bottom Chiefs Judgement Exact Sciences

Author:Reginald Aldworth Daly

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