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Hugh Miller

"Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth."

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.123

Hugh Miller

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“"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."”
“Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.”
“It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.”
“Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.”
“But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's stuck.”
“The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.”

Source : "Music, Visualized". Coast Weekend, May 24, 2012.
“There are certain days that are forever locked in our memories. They represent special times, places, and people that we capture in the scrapbook of our minds. Just a fleeting thought of these memories can bring us back to that special time and place as well as the emotion we felt when we were there.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

"Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth."

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