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In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Also Amount Biology Certain Disparate Facts Families Features Fields Genera Geological Information Large Large Numbers Name Names Numbers Other Patterns Reason Reduce Science See Species Take Them Types Use

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I did write a lot of TV themes - I wrote about 45 of them, and a couple of which are still reference and popular today, like 'Diff'rent Strokes' and 'Facts of Life.' But I was a limited musician.

~Alan Thicke

Topics: About Couple Did Facts Life Like Limited Lot Musician Popular Reference Still Strokes Them Themes Today Tv Which Write Wrote

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Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

~Alana Stewart

Topics: Education Facts Get Liberal Liberal Education People Primarily Really Study Watch Young Young People

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Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

~Albert Claude

Topics: Age Back Been Better Cell Course Dreams Earth Facts Far Full Generation Inheritance Later Life Long Looking Looking Back May Our Our Generation Ownership Receive Remained Say Than Years

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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Aim Axiom Cover Deduction Empirical Facts Grand Greatest Greatest Number Hypotheses Logical Number Science Smallest

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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

~Alberto Giacometti

Topics: Been Constructed Deeply Discover Displaced Facts Images Impressions Me Moved Object Once Tendency Transformed Which

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I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

~Alberto Gonzales

Topics: Before Case Confident Day End End Of The Day Facts Fully Grand Investigation Jury Know Particular Quite

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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

~Albion W. Small

Topics: About Become Facts Finding Forgotten Historians How Latter Learned Make Much Quarrel Skilled Truths Use Worth Would

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Because Cease Cease To Exist Exist Facts Ignored

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Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

~Alec Baldwin

Topics: Actor Anymore Career Certainly Face Facts Get Good-Looking High Make Medium Minute Out People Premium Put Rely Trouble Very Visual Who You Yourself

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