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

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

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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Other Quotes from
Science
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. – Doris Lessing

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Science

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. – Jean M. Auel

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Science

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds – film and science. – Jose Padilha

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Science

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. – James Lovelock

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Science

Random Quotes

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. – James Madison

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My feeling is that labels are for canned food… I am what I am – and I know what I am. – Michael Stipe

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Food

Work is a part of life, not the point of it. – Sean Adams

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…I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones. All true tea-lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes…. – George Orwell, “A Nice Cup of Tea,” Evening Standard, 12 January 1946

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Tea