Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Don Marquis Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • C. E. Montague Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
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  • Tryon Edwards Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albert Einstein Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Bill Nye Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jonathan Katz Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
    Jonathan Katz
    American actor (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Lewis Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel Scott, as you and I both know, a popular move these days is to make a titillating charge and then have the media create the frenzy. Given Kenneth Starr's track record, should we suspect that he's trying to do with innuendo that which he has been unable to do with evidence?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Robert Collier See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Barbara Kruger Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Anne Lamott Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bob Dylan Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn, it looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.
    Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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