Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  - Quotes

 Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. 

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Cassandra Clare  - Quotes

 We're not dating, 

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer  - Quotes

 The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist... 

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Cassandra Clare  - Quotes

 If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 The brain is a harmonic instrument.

It vibrates to the same wavelength.
 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to  

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