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“Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.”

Ifs Should Long Facts Seems Running Law Community Serious Comfort Battle Losing Research Constant Obligation Take Time Long Runs It Takes Time Time Away Good Science

Author:Martin Gardner

“There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions.”

Values Mystery Example Strange Fine Mass Structure Constant Interaction Particles Governing Unexplained

Book:The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

Source: The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

“Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action is He, the One Himself. While attending to your work with your hands, keep yourself bound to Him by sustaining japa, the constant remembrance of Him in your heart and mind. In God's empire, it is forgetfulness of Him that is detrimental. The way to Peace lies in the remembrance of Him and of Him alone.”

Way Mind Heart May Hands Action Form Lying Constant Bounds Realization Empires Remembrance Heart And Mind Forgetfulness Pilgrimage Attending Sustaining Detrimental

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.”

Heart Moments Certain Conditions Constant Appearance Instant Enjoyment Disappearance

Book:Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else

Source: Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else

“No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.”

Has Beens Effort Constant Favors Features Divides Presidency Curry

Author:Mitch Daniels

“It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.”

Science Differences Constant Species Determine Distinction Preservation Magnitude Reproduction

Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”

Ifs Difficult Danger Exercise Constant Legislation Workout

Author:Major Owens

“We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.”

Moments Past Constant Abyss

Book:Pulphead: Essays

Source: Pulphead: Essays

“Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.”

States Lying Constant Perpetual Back Again Flux Lies Truth Transmutation Perpetual Motion

Author:Asger Jorn

“Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones”

Certain Cities Constant Currents Fixed Relief Zone Discouraging Exit Entry Vortex

Author:Ivan Chtcheglov

“The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.”

People World Made Nations Poverty Percent Constant Forgotten Hunger Population Developing Fifty Companion Famine Menace World Population

Author:Norman Borlaug

“I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God. I must read the Bible to know God's will. At every point I will obey and do I will die to self. I will begin to ask God to put me in a service of constant circumstances where to live Christ I must die to self. I will be alive unto God. That I may learn to love Him with my heart, mind, soul, and body.”

“Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.”

Life Has Beens Lasts Night Work Expectations Constant Preparation Injured Preparation For Death

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.”

Real Stars Space Constant Patterns Familiar Friendly Companion Hanging Out Real Friends Unchanging

Author:Jim Lovell

“...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.”

“Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan of Free music. Having said that, Jazz is based on individual expression and I'm compelled to respect the Free player's option to express himself as he chooses.”

Said States Individual Music Player Fans Expression Music Is Constant Jazz Surprise Compelled Jazz Music Individual Expression Free Music

Author:Pete La Roca

“Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.”

Love Stills Self Reason Together Moving Law Order Simple Perfect Common Wonderful Self Love Ordinary Constant Best Things Permit Law And Order

Author:William Saroyan

“Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Λ rears its ugly head again and again and again.”

Made Stills Sometimes Problem Today Used Term Letters Constant Ugly Greek Again And Again Rejected Introduction Blunders

Author:George Gamow

“Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.”

World May Whole Causes President Leadership Common Talking Leader Teacher Listening Constant Common Sense Chiefs Missionary Centre

Author:Charles Handy

“Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.”

Seems Eye Spirit Passion Blood Ears Constant Judgement Compliment Modest Gross Deck Free Spirit Mirth

Book:Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness

Source: Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness

“The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.”

“Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.”

Republican Safety Constant Republic Distrust Tenure

Author:Wendell Phillips

“There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people”

People Ifs Has Beens Matter Able Values Universe Strong Force Stars Millions Cases Planets Weak Constant Various Nuclear Etc Precise Galaxy

Author:Francis Collins

“The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego.”

Men Needs Past Animal Ego Devil Evidence Constant Blow Deny Characteristics

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.”

“How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort. we know that development results from activity. The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.”

Knows Mean Children Doe Interest Results Effort Rich Environment Achieve Development Activity Independence Constant Motive Invites

Author:Maria Montessori

“Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.”

Problem Science Natural Psychology Objects Method Constant Aids Observation Analysis Indispensable Persistent Domain Transient Natural Science

Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.”

World Soul Lasts My Own Middle Constant Dear Possession Boat Insanity Fascination Another World Bending Hanging On Demonic Dear Life

Author:Glenn Hughes

“Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.”

Self Cities Century Healthy Disease Europe Constant Population Crowds Immigration Urban 20th Century Peasants Countryside Sustaining Dwellers

Book:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.”

“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time... it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”

World Should Years Has Beens Should Have Constant Rising Reasonable Twelve Carbon Temperature Should Have Been Millennium Carbon Dioxide Alarmists

Author:James Lovelock

“We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”

“Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.”

Drink Constant Applause

Book:Dry: A Memoir

Source: Dry: A Memoir

“The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.”

Ifs Want Two Bigs Numbers Lessons Organization Constant Distance Lifts Prove Myself Improving Yourself

Author:Indra Nooyi

“Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.”

Dies Universal Constant Wanting To Die

Book:Calculating God

Source: Calculating God

“What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?”

Ifs Giving Self Values Cry Constant Transcendence

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.”

Thinking Kind Done Constant Obsession Thinking About The Future

Author:John Cale

“Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”

Culture Effort Study Achieve Perfection Constant

Book:Essays of Four Decades

Source: Essays of Four Decades

“Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.”

Causes Chance Constant

Author:Walter A. Shewhart

“I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Wells Responsibility Adventure Circumstances Discovery Constant Neighbor Liberation These Days Things To Do Neighborhood Sensible

Author:Pico Iyer

“I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.”

Thinking Two Common Genius Unique Constant Certainty Burning Delusion Fraud Epic Contradictory Speeding Simultaneous

Author:Scott Lynch

“New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.”

Reality Beautiful Cities Existence Accepting Failing Dangerous New York Economics Flow Remains Constant Population Deny Dirty Paradox Harsh Soar Whimsical Ebb And Flow

Author:Paul Goldberger

“Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from them. It began with the invention of a possible world, or a fragment thereof, which was then compared by experimentation with the real world. And it was this constant dialogue between imagination and experiment that allowed one to form an increasingly fine-grained conception of what is called reality.”

“Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.”

People Thinking Ideas Voice Interest Imagination Fashion Constant Materialistic

Author:Peter Sotos

“The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.”

“I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.”

Children Real Joy Fire Taste Laughter Discovery Adults Our Children Constant Surprise Convinced Celebrate Accomplishment Meals Sunset Warmth Real Friends Good Meals

Book:Moments: The Foxfire Experience

Source: Moments: The Foxfire Experience

“Ignorance and confidence are constant companions”

Ignorance Constant Companion

Author:John McAfee

“For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.”

Believe Has Beens Body Spirit Christ Sin Generations Holy Constant Believer Holy Spirit Defeated Condemnation Convicts Siege Body Of Christ Accusers

Author:Joseph Prince

“We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn’t understand and therefore, we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action, try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake or another thing you didn’t like so you can redo it once again. So by constant improvement, or, should I say, the improvement based upon action, one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge.”

“I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.”

Facts Terrible Constant Coward

Author:Trevor McDonald