Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil. - Anonymous
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn vos Savant
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. - Richard Feynman
In philosophy, phenomenology is the study of the structures of experience and consciousness. Wine blind tasting is the best phenomenology, phenomenology par excellence, returning us from our heads into the world, and, at the same time, teaching us the methods of the mind. - Neel Burton
Knowledge is acquired by diligent study. But wisdom is given by the revere of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. - Oscar Wilde
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw
Study the past if you would define the future. - Confucius
When you take time to study and practice the word of God, you become like a barrel of great beauty, filled with the energy drink of love with which you inspire people to inspire other people! - Israelmore Ayivor
Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too. - William Zinsser
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles. - J.B.S. Haldane
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. - Prakhar Srivastav
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. - Nikola Tesla
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. - Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to understand UFOs, reincarnation and God, do not study UFOs, reincarnation and God. Study people. - Scott Adams
Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you. - J.R. Rim
History is the study of the abuse of power. - Marty Rubin
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences. - Ernst Boris Chain
Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively *are* less free. - Edward Snowden
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old. - Epicurus
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. - Evan Esar
Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study? - Chris Sardegna
My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it. - Allen Tate
To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic. - Amit Kalantri
An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values - Sunday Adelaja
HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises. - Ambrose Bierce
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young. - Ambrose Bierce
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. - Sir Francis Bacon
Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. - Jan Wong
I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence." -The Sacred Echo - Margaret Feinberg
It [economics] is the study of how people, companies, and societies allocate scarce resources. Which happens to be the same puzzle you and your spouse are perpetually trying to solve: how to spend your limited time, energy, money and libido in ways that keep you smiling and your marriage thriving. - Paula Szuchman ; Jenny Anderson
So it is our request that you try to study Bhagavad-gītā as it is. Don't try to distort it by your so-called education. Try to understand Kṛiṣṇa as He is saying. Then you will be benefited. Your life will be successful. - A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one. - Walter Moers
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study. - Wynton Marsalis
Zoo: An excellent lace to study the habits of human beings - Evan Esar
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. - Dan Quayle
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. - Lauren Bacall
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
This mysterious path is described in the holy books, but it cannot be found simply by the study of sacred texts. It is found by the grace and guidance of an accomplished teacher. - Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj
You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations. - Iris Murdoch
All he did all afternoon was calculate again and again how many hours of study time he was losing. Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else. - Paolo Giordano
Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God to believe in women! (At least that was so in the Garden of Eden) - R. N. Prasher
Yes, 1960’s North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920’s and 1930’s crime bosses— QET Jenkins - Kim Welsman
To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry. - Alister E. McGrath
Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library. - Douglas Adams
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living - Jules Henri Poincaré
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. - Karl von Bonstetten
Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy. - John Adams
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself. - Richard Francis Burton
For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship. - Iain Pears
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? - Saadi سعدی
A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages. - Roger Angell
It has never been easier to get books but never harder to find the quiet needed to study them. - John Mark Reynolds
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. - Sir Richard Francis Burton
When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself. - John Sedgwick
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study. - Oscar Wilde
Begin to study. You can master any field of choice. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe. - Septima Poinsette Clark
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life. - Harold Urey
Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures - Pedro Okoro
Getting money from my dad is a finesse job. Luckily, I have finesse coming out of my arse. I barged into his study without knocking, marched across to his desk, and held out my hand. Give me twenty pounds, I snapped. I need twenty pounds. Give it to me. Now! - Sarra Manning
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same. - Jonathan Edwards
Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business. - Orrin Woodward
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. - Idries Shah
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating. - W. Somerset Maugham
Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do. - V. R. Roadifer
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. - Louis Pasteur
I study people by using electronics like proxy. - Deyth Banger
12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. - Sir William Osler
[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by patient study of the eternal laws. - Henry Whitehead
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’d like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God. - Kris Vallotton
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. - Julia Ward Howe
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln
Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report that their first sexual intercourse was forced. In rural Malawi, 55 percent of adolescent girls surveyed report that they were often forced to have sex. - Njovana Watts
I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get! - Deyth Banger
Failures and mistakes are lessons, keep study school doesn't deserv a penny to give what you remember from school is just the worst stuff. - Deyth Banger
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Knowing Psalm 23 is different from knowing the shepherd. - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
The quest for knowledge is passion to study. - Lailah Gifty Akita
One must never be eccentric. If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.
A study can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. - Victor Hugo
There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. - Harold Bloom
Oh, study your hearts, watch your hearts, keep your hearts - John Flavel
It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock. - J.B. Phillips
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. - R. Buckminster Fuller
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. - Niccolo Machiavelli
At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them. - Daniel Akst
Life is a battle; face it.Life is a jungle; explore it.Life is a puzzle; study it.Life is a mystery; solve it.Life is a game; beat it.Life is an opponent; defeat it.Life is a treasure; cherish it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. - John Maynard Keynes
My wilderness training was 4 years and 10 months of solitude, search and study. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go. - Chris Matakas
Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands. - Joshua Roman
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. - The Mishnah
Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body - Ecclesiastes 12 12
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. - Bible
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. - Charles C. Ryrie
The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study. - Miyamoto Musashi
To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman? - Confucius
An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy. - J.B.S. Haldane
By the study of Boltzmann I have been unable to understand him. He could not understand me on account of my shortness, and his length was and is an equal stumbling block to me. - James Clerk Maxwell
And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists. - Donna Tartt
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals. - Mark Galli
If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith. - R.A. Torrey
Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and become one. - amy litzelman
Don't study science. Play with it. - Abhijit Naskar
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan
If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life. - María Kodama
Life is a test. A test of Character and Strength, experience is our study guide... so remember what you learn and more importantly-apply it. - Sarah Funkhouser
How do you know who are? You have been told how to think, what to study and what's right and wrong your entire life. Well it's not your life until you start being you. Think, work it out for yourself. - Rob Al'dred
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. - Ovid
The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number. - Aristotle
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. - Stephen King
The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it. - Alexander Pope
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. - Thomas Aquinas
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles
The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired. - Joseph Epstein
A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh. - Conan O'Brien
Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it. - J. Wilbur Chapman
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. - William Glasser
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. - Bodhidharma
No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts. - St. Gregory Dialogos
Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals. - H.L. Mencken
Instead of complaining of the problem, learn how to cope with it and live it and study it and discover their weaknesses and then smash it..عوض أن تشتكي من المشلكة تعلم كيف تتأقلم معها وتعيشها وتدرسها وتكتشف نقاط ضعفها ثم حطمها - Hicham LM Kamelionaire
Knowledge is acquired by diligent study. - Lailah Gifty Akita
After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me. - David Wilkerson
Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it. - Honoré de Balzac
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior. - Boyd K. Packer
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. - William Shakespeare
Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. - C. JoyBell C.
When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire. - Tyler Edwards
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth - Odysseus Elytis
Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son". - David L. Cohn
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. - Edward Swift
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. - Bruce Lee
The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation. - William McKinley
We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be. - Jordan Ellenberg
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. - Charles-Victor De Bonstettin
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted. - P.D. James
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. - Robert Henri
Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study. - Michael F. Bird
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. - John Dewey
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. - Aldous Huxley
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. - H.G. Wells
If you have only a day to live; fill it with study and sex. - M.F. Moonzajer
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness... - Alain de Botton
Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new. - Leo Tolstoy
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. - Simone Weil
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. - Thomas E. Woods Jr.
sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. - Jon Ronson
To learn why a country or society is developed or poor, don’t study their financial condition but do a psychoanalysis of them. Most often, the development of a country or society depends on thoughts and ideas and not on their financial condition. - Debasish Mridha
Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error - Jim George
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all. - Sydney Smith
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.' - Sir Arthur Eddington
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. - Leonardo da Vinci
They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that’s it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free! - Anton Krotov
Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep. - Andreas Harpas
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. - Samuel Smiles
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create. - Ed Parker
I made the exhilarating discovery that study, when it is pursued with ardour and discipline, becomes creation. - W.K. Hancock
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. - Leonard Ravenhill
Study for Knowledge, not for marks. If you have the Knowledge, you will get the marks. - Khurshed Batliwala
Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man. - Alexander Pope
Life gives daily lessons ... Not to study but to understand - Mohammed Sekouty
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. - Albert Einstein
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything. - Susan Rice
You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly. - Shawn Achor
I study nature so as not to do foolish things. - Mary Ruefle
If you’re looking for family entertainment, don’t study history or prehistory. - Peter Frost
If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers - Steven Magee
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. - Woodrow Wilson
The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past. - Alexander von Humboldt