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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

Process, Wonder, Scientific

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

Faith, Happy, Wise

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Strong, Luck

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate, Cannot, Rest

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

Good, Heart, Shall

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Good, Nothing

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two, Fact, Cause

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

Great, Mind, Reality

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Different, Before, After

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Swami Vivekananda

Free, Behind, Cause

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Between, Cause, Weakness

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Morning, Feeling

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

Except, Danger, Indeed

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Music, Greatest

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

Great, May, Cannot

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Patience, Before, Obstacles

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

Before, Born, Late

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Thomas Merton

Live, Hell, Light

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace

Adversity, Talents, Prosperous

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mind, Put, Genius

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wisdom, Action

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

True, End, Give

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham

Moderation, Habit, Excess

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot

Angry, Kindness, May

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

Political, Reality, Give

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
Stephen Hawking

Human, Wait, Able

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke

May, Before, Liberty

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin

Feelings, Same, Pathetic

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

Feeling, Done, Away

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time, Long, Short

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