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Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. - Sydney Smith

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters
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Other Quotes from
Science
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Id always been a science fiction enthusiast. – Ivan Reitman

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Science

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. – Donella Meadows

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Science

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. – David Hilbert

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Science

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. – Octavia Butler

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Science

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The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat. – Merlin Olsen

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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. – William Wordsworth

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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