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• I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

  Simon Newcomb

  Way, Mathematics, Should

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• If someday rockets should open the gates to space, then we must be oriented as to its environmental conditions and their possible biological effects. To study this, and to find means of protection, is one of the tasks of space medicine.

  Hubertus Strughold

  Mean, Medicine, Space

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• A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

  Chris Kilham

  Men, Medicine, Feelings

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• Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Example, Communist

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I will be with you.' I cried, 'Lord, I will go. Where shall I go?' And Jesus said, 'Go here, go there, wherever souls are perishing.' Praise the Lord for his wonderful goodness in revealing his word and will in such a wonderful way, to such a poor weak worm of the dust. I saw more in that vision than I could have learned in years of hard study. Praise His Holy Name. I saw that I must not depend on anything that I could do, but to look to Him for strength and wisdom.

  Maria Woodworth-Etter

  Jesus, Dust, Years

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• The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.

  Michael Horton

  Religious, Teaching, Names

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• I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Dream, Hands, Soul

  Jimmy Santiago Baca (2007). “A Place to Stand”, p.102, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Profound, Soul

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• It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps for years, you get the feel of it and it is in your bones. You can't convey that to anyone else. Having studied the problem for five years you may be able to present it in such a way that it would take somebody else less time to get to that point than it took you. But if they haven't struggled with the problem and seen all the pitfalls, then they haven't really understood it.

  Michael Atiyah

  Math, Years, Long

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• The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

  Paul Dirac

  Math, Practice, Data

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• Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

  James Black

  School, Math, Years

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• The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Bed, Movement

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• It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity with these mighty concepts most certainly does not breed contempt, does not dull our awe at the mightiness of the universe in which we play so small a part. It is very doubtful if any of those who are seriously studying the heavens ever lose their feeling of reverence for this supremely wonderful universe and for Whoever or Whatever must be behind it all.

  Heber Doust Curtis

  Play, Space, Heaven

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• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  Danica McKellar

  Math, College, Class

  "Danica McKellar Promotes New Math Book By Posing in Lingerie for 'Maxim'" by JJ Duncan, www.zimbio.com. May 12, 2010.

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• History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

  Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

  Real, History, Facts

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• All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

  George Gershwin

  Jobs, Past, Men

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• Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.

  Honor Harger

  Simple, Night, Space

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• If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, Artist, Technique

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• With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Long, Wish

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Sleep, Ice Cream

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.136, Penguin

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• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Design, Care

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.921, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Film

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• My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.

  Hardin B. Jones

  Cancer, Four, Individual

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• Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

  Henci Goer

  Believe, Doctors, Trying

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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