"The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience."

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Source : I. Bernard Cohen (2006). “The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

I. Bernard Cohen

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“If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?”
“I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.”
“We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.”

Source : "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.
“Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.”
“I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.”
“Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.”
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”

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