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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. ↗

— Quintilian

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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When the devil grows old he turns hermit. ↗