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«A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it»
Author: Max Planck
(Physicist)
| About:
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
convincing, eventually, familiar, familiar with, opponents, scientific, see the light, triumph
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Admiration,
Discovery
| Keywords:
admiration, decays, discoveries, familiar with, Fed, feed upon, fresh, rising, short-lived, succession
«There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
diseases, familiar, familiar with, in truth, manifestations, organs, specialties, specialty
«Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Familiarity
| Keywords:
civil, familiar with, sociable
«Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
civil, familiar, familiar with, sociable
«It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
as if by magic, familiar, familiar with, function, magic, perception, renew, scene, shakes, writer
«Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Vice
| Keywords:
familiar with, frightful, mien, monster, oft
«There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
cats, cleaned up, cleaning, clean out, clean up, disdain, disdained, disdains, familiar, familiars, familiar with, in on, make clean, particular, queen, regard, Siamese, teeth, the Queen, walked
«When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman»
«Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Familiarity
| Keywords:
accurate, breeds, contempt, familiar, familiarity, familiars, familiar with, opportunity, respect, such, to get, Truth by Reason
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