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375 Scottish Quotes

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Chief philosophical Value Physics Mind
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Great advantage Student Original memoirs Science
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers

Mathematical sciences Relations Physical laws Numbers
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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter

Laws Matter Our minds.fabricate
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In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Every branch Knowledge Progress Facts
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Conscious ignorance Prelude Real advance Science
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The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.
True logic World Calculus Probabilities
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I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

Have looked Philosophical systems God
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

Science Some interest Great discoverers Lives
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I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Capacity More wicked Example Man
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express

Mathematicians Flatter Possess New ideas
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... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

Great Physical constants Approximately estimated Men
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Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn’t try it on.

Never trust Man When left Alone
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

You judge Man Walk Mile
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There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

Such thing Bad wealth Wrong clothes
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Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.

Life Be fun Job Occupation
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If you give people a chance, they shine.

Give people Chance They shine
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Marriage Wonderful invention Bicycle Repair kit
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time?

Who discovered Get milk From cows Think
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I’m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white.

Pale blue Takes me Week Sunbathing
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

Your mother Never Tell you Drink
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I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra.I'm never likely to go there.

Should have Learn Never Go there
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

It seems Islam Christianity Judaism
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.

Whenever Wear something Expensive Look stolen
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

One door Closes Opens Often look
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Sometimes We stare So long Door
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Anything else Preparation Key Success
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Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Educate The masses Elevate Standard
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I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Would impress Your minds Man justice Believe what
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

The nation Secures control The air Ultimately
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

This power Exists Becomes available Man
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Successful men The end Steady accretion
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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

The day Man Telephone Be able
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

Only difference Success Failure The ability
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
The achievement One goal Starting point Another
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

Concentrate Your thoughts Work Focus
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

One day Every Major city Have telephone
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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Force ideas Successful Result Slow growth
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

God Wonders Through life Eyes shut
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

You Cover Great Deal
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For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!

For Told Good Deeds
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

He Statistics Drunken Support
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Handing her the feather of the blue falcon, which she held by the tip and gazed at

Handing Feather Blue Held
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Get away out of my country at once, and for ever, miserable creature, lest I take your life, and so rid myself of your malice.

Away Country Miserable Creature
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Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine, And things I did, but do not, know.

Books Roof Speak Faded
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So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

Labour Alphabet Learning Lands
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Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.

Indeed Impossible Limits Coincidence
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Life's more amusing than we thought.

Life's More Than Thought
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

He Missed Invaluable Opportunity
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remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Remember Danger Most Feared
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