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If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.


James Collins


#help #i #know #large #large scale

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.


Frederick II


#greatest #new #next #noblest #off

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.


Robert Frost


#being #change #due #favor #life

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.


Scott McClellan


#change #takes #talking #then #truths

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.


John Stuart Mill


#brought #cannot #full #home #many

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'


Laura Riding


#am #conscious #go #human #human nature

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.


Paul Valery


#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.


William Herschel


#confirming #contained #discoveries #high #human

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.


Thomas Huxley


#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.


Thomas Jefferson


#among #certain #created #creator #endowed






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