Norman Lockyer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.
-- Norman Lockyer
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Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.
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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
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Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
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