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Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

“A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.”

Trying Doe Whole Individual Wish Benefits Ambition Intellectual Mathematics Curiosity Math Subtle Motivated Nevertheless Mathematician Typical Mixtures Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Timothy Gowers

“Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.”

People Knows World Ends Government Order Deals Effort Silence Planets Authority Evidence Intelligent Silent Contact Our World Dedicated Nevertheless Alarms Nasa American Government

Author:Gordon Cooper

“Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical”

Form Space Appearance Logical Nevertheless

Author:Kenzo Tange

“And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.”

Ifs Men World House Left Fear Return Terror Conquer Love Life Nevertheless Another Life Conquer The World

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.”

Should Humans Suffering Human Beings Animal Benefits Cruelty Nevertheless Experimentation Animal Cruelty Unethical Infliction

Author:Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

“Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.”

Knows Risk Information Return Flight Nevertheless Apollo Magnitude Star Gazing Columbus Foreseen

Author:Jerome F. Lederer

“Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.”

“[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.”

Men Persons Sex Freedom Numbers Liberty Doubt Talent Theory Genius Succeed Difficulty Prejudice Extraordinary Obstacles Superiors Encounters Customs Nevertheless Obscure Sophie

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.”

Stills Sin Known Lord Nevertheless

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here.”

God Purpose Religion Faith Hope Judgment Accounts Mathematics Dare Scripture Ignorant Mathematical Passages Faith In God Nevertheless Censure

Author:Nicolaus Copernicus

“Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?”

World Feels Children Doe Feelings Problem Body Difficulty Our Children Assuming Rounds Criminals Violent Your Children Nevertheless Other Worlds Delicacy Framing

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!”

Men Mind Long Body Hands Young Strong Given Blood Flow Ill Illness Nevertheless Veins Limbs Mind And Body Long Life Robust Blood Flow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.”

Certain Natural Beauty Moral Grace Example Appreciate Genuine Generosity Selfless Modesty Nevertheless Spontaneous Selfless Love Unselfish Acts Of Courage Natural Gifts

Author:Yi-Fu Tuan

“His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.”

War Together Effort Opinion Enemy France Ministers Pushing Prime Nevertheless Foxes Prime Minister Vigor Insufficient Successors

Author:J. Christopher Herold

“I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.”

“I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.”

Littles Aspect Expected Improvement Visible Nevertheless Flourishing Alterations

Book:The Idler in France

Source: The Idler in France

“Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.”

Years Age Hours Minutes Mere Old Age Encounters Lasting Nevertheless

Author:Hermann Hesse

“It's two seasons since I raced in Sepang and I'm looking forward to it now. It's a track where you have a little bit of everything - it's hard to ride, it's hot, there are fast and slow corners, hard braking, long straights and everybody has references from the tests. Nevertheless, we need to wait to see on Friday what the temperature and track conditions are like to understand how the tyres will work, because it's normally very slippery. I'm really enjoying racing at the moment and I want to continue like this, pushing the maximum from our side without thinking about the others.”

“As I say so often, “Observe and wait.” Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption. It is natural to make mistakes and easy to misunderstand pre-verbal children. Nevertheless, it is important to keep trying”

Trying May Children Important Sometimes Wanted Easy Waiting Natural Mistake Assumption Making Mistakes Nevertheless Infant Keep Trying

Book:Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect

Source: Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect

“Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.”

People Way Mind May Book Whole Seems Able Form Young Results Direct Mark Brilliant Excellent Merit Collections Passages Nevertheless Quotations Scope Cultivation Praiseworthy

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.”

Self Nevertheless Fetters

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.”

Despise Nevertheless Flattery Flattered

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”

Mind Imagination Imagine Shadow Hunger Certainty Substance Nevertheless Consuming Famine Prevailing Finality

Book:Debunking Science

Source: Debunking Science

“It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.”

May Advice Policy Essence Contrary Nevertheless Adversaries

Author:Saadi

“I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.”

Men Stills Earth Faces Cities Fields Wind Solitude Mountain Garden Rivers Window Mere Affair Giants Crush Rough Crash Nevertheless Our Thoughts Dwarfs Forsaken Orchard Monstrosity Scraping

Author:Wallace Stevens

“To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.”

Men Humans Ideas Affair Interpretation Disagree Nevertheless Dissent Tribute Supremacy Sinister Hegel

Book:George Steiner: A Reader

Source: George Steiner: A Reader

“The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.”

Ifs Should Stills Two Soul Whole Body Lying Desire Dies Wish Rights Nevertheless Linked Supposing Simultaneous

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.”

Book Share Degrees Holiness Nevertheless

Book:Timebends: A Life

Source: Timebends: A Life

“As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying hello, lovely day, and so on.”

Seems Lovely Nevertheless Hello Email Saying Hello Lovely Day

Author:Lynne Truss

“So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.”

Ifs Desire Risk Fields Nevertheless Parameters

Author:Jeremy Irons

“Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.”

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works

“Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.”

Men May Moments Lasts Science Fall Results Education Situation Special Remains Average Analysis Nevertheless Dictionary Falling Down Average Man Decisive Moments

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.”

Wells Book Courses Harder Sells Nevertheless

Author:Tama Janowitz

“As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.”

People Knows Musician Appreciate Take Time Nevertheless Very Happy

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.”

Ifs States Government Democracy Citizens Ideals Democratic Believer Arise Locals Inevitable Boss Devoted Dictator Nevertheless True Believer Local Government Democratic Ideals

Author:Charles Edison

“This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.”

Trying Littles Bigs Jobs Computer Fake Nevertheless Playing God

Author:Larry Wall

“Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.”

Left Land Crime Filled Vices Awful Nevertheless Trails Prohibition Dimes Slime

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.”

“Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.”

“If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.”

Ifs Men Stills Character Action Science Known He Man Insight Certainty Occasions Nevertheless Incentives Eclipse

Author:Immanuel Kant

“After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.”

Knows Want Life Humans May Doe Reason Whole Order Alive Human Nature Capacity Live Life Reasoning Why Not Entity Nevertheless Reassuring

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.”

Lines Special Encouragement Add South Ill Population Missions Agency Portions Nevertheless Carolina Public Health South Carolina

Author:Nikki Haley

“Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.”

Ifs Mother Father Gone Kings Daughter Hundred Nevertheless Mothers Day Having A Daughter

Author:Joan of Arc

“While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.”

People Home Today Effort Mistake Honor Empty Iraq Debate Gestures Troops Nevertheless Our Troops Belated

Author:Raul Grijalva

“While civilization is more than a high material living standard, it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives in the sense that they relate to, or are dictated by, present and future human needs.”

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