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“Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.”

“A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That was his crime; that's why he was crucified - because he was destroying the whole basis of this criminal society; he was destroying the whole foundation rock of this criminal world, the world of wars, and violence, and aggression. He gave a totally new foundation stone.”

World Different War Whole Law Christ Attitude Violence Rocks Crime Needed Stones Bases Foundation Criminals Destroying Aggression Different Attitude Attitude Of Love

Author:Rajneesh

“From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.”

Love Has Beens Moments Age Mother Father Force Parent Violence Century Baby Birth Concerned Stones Destroying Twentieth Century Stone Age

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”

Men Love Waiting Built Stones True Love Temples

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.”

Interesting Secret Stones Experience Defeat Valuable Stepping Stones

Author:Walter Russell

“He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.”

Firsts May Fall Liberty Economics Stones Casts Libertarian Materialism Mortality Libertarianism Economist Infant Plague Famine Disdain Disappearance Infant Mortality

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

Fall Literature Water Stones Perseverance Dropping

Author:Lucretius

“I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.”

Knows Men Science Turns Known Knowledge Stones Gold Philosopher Pursuit Poor Richard

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.”

Science Sun Stones Accounts Scientific Truth

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.”

Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches

“Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.”

Life Feels Science Grows Animal Stones Plant

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”

Pieces Cutting Stones Bigger Glasses Construction Columns Carving Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Adrienne Clarkson

“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”

Should Heart May Has Beens Hard Wisdom Earth Grows Compassion Rocks Color Flower Spring Garden Stones Sake Experiments Heart Breaking

Author:Rumi

“I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.”

“He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.”

Thinking World Heart Earth Lasts Father Mystery Rocks Keys Stones Flesh Grass Dull Pockets Gray Layers Smooth Palms Concealed

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."”

Source: The lonely dancer: and other poems

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

Needs Should Age Names Stars Memories Son Fame Stones Weak Dear Bones Witness Labour Honour Pointing Pyramids Heirs Relics

Author:John Milton

“Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your sannyas and then the temple can be raised very easily. It is easy to raise the temple once the foundation is rightly put. This is the foundation stone: remember that existence loves you, cares about you, is concerned about you; that you are not alienated, that you are not a stranger, that you are part of this great symphony, this orchestra, this celebration that goes on and on and knows no ending.”

Knows Mean Care Remember Easy Existence Love You Goes On Concerned Stones Raises Foundation Raised Stranger Temples Celebration Indifferent Orchestra Symphony Care For You

Author:Rajneesh

“When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind is washed away.”

Feels Mind Fall Water Rain Rivers Stones Dust Bowls Drop Of Water

Author:Sen no Rikyu

“Be content to be what you are; shiny stones and silver bangles only make you look what you really are.”

Looks Stones Silver Bling Bangles

Author:Tiny Tim

“The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.”

Men Years Funny Loss Stage He Man Stones Dumb Piano Rolling Rolling Stones Great Loss

Author:Andy Peebles

“Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.”

Water Knowledge Stones Devotion

Author:Sylvia Fraser

“You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.”

People Stones Fake Fake People Sharon

Author:Claire Bloom

“I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.”

Science Rocks Ocean Stones Convinced Observation Substance Sand Shells Clay Spoil Marble Geology Chalk Limes

Book:Natural History, General and Particular

Source: Natural History, General and Particular

“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.”

Whole Earth Lying Nations Christianity Support Building Bears Stones Window Weight Glorious Unseen Despised Gargoyles

Author:John Owen

“Self confidence is the ground stone of success”

Self Stones Encouragement Self Confidence

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.”

Feels Rain Stones Damn Rainy Rainy Day Slick Paperwork

Author:Maureen Johnson

“Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.”

Writing Sad Stones Encouragement Sand Good Times Feeling Sad Sad Times

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.”

Knows Needs Should Soul Science Courses Knowledge Position Building Models Stones Aim Structure Train Corners Admire Observation Wheels Engines Handsome Binding Theorists Edifice Levers

Author:Arthur Eddington

“The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.”

Culture House Church Modern Stones Window Glasses Eyeglasses Modern Culture Stained Glass Glass Houses

Book:THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH

Source: THE SIGNIFIANCE OF THE CHURCH

“If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.”

Ifs Liberty Sea Wall Beats Stones Brass

Author:John Cotton

“The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.”

Inspiration Known Path Rocks Angel Stones Block Trails Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Charles Ghigna

“A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.”

Source: Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations

“In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”

Philosophy Science Natural Brother Stones Temporary Newton Stepping Stones Hares Julius Natural Philosophy Principia

Author:Augustus William Hare

“How peacefully he sleep! Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length from all the frettings of this little world, Wander at will among the uncharted stars. Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields disclosing long sought secrets of the past Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze And beasts and men that to his earthly sight were merely bits of stone shall live again to gladden those eager eyes. o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend- Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!”

“It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.”

Ifs Life Made Hard Reality Would Be Science Sports Water Nature Chance Creative Alive Rocks Creation Shapes Stones Impression Delusion Shells Vague Superficial Mud Creative Power

Author:Agostino Scilla

“When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.”

Men Real Facts Stories Reality Faces Science Culture Break History Written Rocks Pages Stones Scientist Exposed Hammers Printed

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

“Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.”

Ifs Trying Speak Goal Risk Stones Opposites Primaries Approved Speaks Out Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.”

Two Sometimes Stories Sides Black White Integrity Stones Abundance Tall Multitudes Accuracy Two Sides Facets Black Or White

Author:Barry Leiba

“I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!”

Way Giving Firsts May Mean Has Beens Truth Lying Dies Lines Behinds Possibility Wall Honor Draws Stones Crosses Prison Circles Reaching Thick Chalk Honor And Integrity Prison Walls Byu

Author:Karl G. Maeser

“Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.”

Social Honor Stones Catholic Foundation Cement Edifice

Author:Pope John Paul II

“God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.”

Knows Stones Philosophical Woods

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.”

Soul Light Form Stars Written Communication Stones Crosses Philosophical Bridges Rays Written Word Spoken Word Tolerable Rays Of Light

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.”

Dies Sports Animal Boys Stones Philosophical Earnest Frogs Animal Cruelty Animal Life Animal Ethics

Author:Bion of Borysthenes

“Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?”

Ifs Should Mind Interest Can Do Consciousness Knowledge Imagine Prove Stones

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.”

“The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.”

Humans Seeing Share Atheism Human Nature Percent Stones Regard Positive Atheism Thinker Almighty Irrelevant Stepping Stones Chimpanzees Oddities

Author:Robert Trivers

“You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.”

Men Giving Years Remember Stones Give Me One Man Last Words Remember Me Bronze

Author:Damon Runyon

“We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.”

“People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.”

People May Said Stills Hate Names Hurt Break Havens Stones I Hate Sticks Forgotten Bones Bully Hate You I Hate You Hurt Me Sticks And Stones True Words Words Can Hurt

Author:Demi Lovato

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