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the biggest ever scientific fraud
Andrey Kapitsa
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
Aristotle
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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Aristotle
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Aristotle
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He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.
Daniel Coit Gilman
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Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
Jared Diamond
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Anaximander
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Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.
Anaximander
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There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
Aristotle
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
Aristotle
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
John Wesley Powell
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The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
Jared Diamond
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
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Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
Aristotle
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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
Aristotle
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The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Aristotle
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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Aristotle
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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
Aristotle
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Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
Aristotle
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I don't know how not to get the flu.
Alfred W. Crosby
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Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
Alfred W. Crosby
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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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