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“ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.”

Science Humour Habit Species Expenses Funeral Snakes Adders

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.”

Mean Science Powerful Failing Habit Eternal Rewards Advancement Diligence Vigilance Eternal Vigilance

Author:Lewis Howard Latimer

“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

“The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.”

Science Evolution Habit Letters Ears Fellows Tails Destined Humane

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.”

“The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.”

Ideas Matter Law Science Individual Habit Degrees Majors Discovery Experience Determined New Ideas Scope Accuracy

Book:Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers

“What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.”

Ideas Science Next Progress Generations Habit Tools Mathematics Instinct Insight Math New Ideas

Author:Jim Propp

“So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, in a quasi-empirical direction. The reason why mathematicians are changing their working habits is the computer. I think that this is an excellent joke!”

Thinking Ends Reason Science Results Habit Computer Jokes Mathematics Excellent Reason Why Mathematician

Author:Gregory Chaitin

“Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!”

Reason Remember Science Universe Sky Mankind Serious Habit Refuge Behalf Port Bad Habits

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.”

May Mean Enough Science Strong Influence Habit Weak Structure Possession Wide Yield Stable Phases Strong Enough Equilibrium Nomenclature Plasticity

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”

Shows Science Food Habit Eating Diets Sarcastic Statistics Contracts

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”

Needs Science Habit Instinct Appeals Useless Life Changing Time Machine Versatility

Book:The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

“You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.”

People Science Fun Enjoy Habit Skepticism Skeptic

Author:Carl Sagan

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha