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«Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.»
Author: Louis Pasteur
(Chemist, Microbiologist)
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«The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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«Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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«The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.»
«The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.»
«Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: / All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; / The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.»
«The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.»
«The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety»
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