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Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. ↗

— Walter Reisch

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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. ↗

— Walter Reisch

#aim #earth #feet #galaxies #greatest

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. ↗

— Diogenes

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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin. ↗

— Ron White

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If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is. ↗

— Terry Gross

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