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13
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23
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22
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Science
115
Modern science
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Curiosity
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances.
William Shakespeare
We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.
Marcus Aurelius
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Erasmus
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.
Seneca
Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
Confucius
It will be finished when I shall have done all that I believe required to satisfy Art.
Michelangelo
Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.
Cicero
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature.
Lao Tzu
The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
Leonardo da Vinci
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac Newton
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Epictetus
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
In the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
Galileo Galilei
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
Zhuangzi
One stone cannot support a cooking pot; three are required.
Swahili proverb
Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop.
Xun Zi
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Bashō
There have never been people who know but do not act.
Wang Yangming
A boat stalls when each person rows independently.
Swahili proverb
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Drops of water hollow out a stone.
Ovid
Two heads are better than one.
English proverb
Many hands make light work.
English proverb
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Chinese proverb
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
Irish proverb
However far a stream flows, it never forgets its source.
Yoruba proverb
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Rumi
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Sun Tzu
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Ethiopian proverb
I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
It takes a village to raise a child.
African proverb
Patience is the key to relief.
Arabic proverb
Of all lines which have the same extremities the straight line is the least.
Archimedes
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself.
Seneca
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
Cicero
He who devotes himself to learning seeks from day to day to increase his knowledge.
Lao Tzu
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.
Aristotle
Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Plato
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop
Eureka! I have found it!
Archimedes
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
William Shakespeare
Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them.
Marcus Aurelius
Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides.
Seneca
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
Confucius
The highest excellence is like water.
Lao Tzu
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Union gives strength.
Aesop
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then, or bear with them.
Marcus Aurelius
No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
Seneca
If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.
Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
Nature makes nothing in vain.
Aristotle
Slow and steady wins the race.
Aesop
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.
Marcus Aurelius
He is a great man who uses earthenware dishes as if they were silver; but he is equally great who uses silver as if it were earthenware.
Seneca
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
It is equally faulty to trust everyone and to trust no one.
Seneca
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection; second, by imitation; third, by experience.
Confucius
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Seneca
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.
Seneca
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca
All art is but imitation of nature.
Seneca
Men learn while they teach.
Seneca
Archimedes
Leonardo da Vinci
