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Maths is the purest science in that you don't need any test tubes or animal testing to do it. All the other sciences eventually boil down to maths, apart from biology, which boils down to soup.
Guy Browning— 2004 In The Guardian,19 Jun.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
thomas gray— St. 14. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
Freedom is more than just a word and a patriotic concept. It is the purest intent of God.
steve maraboli— p. 73 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace . The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm .
— Charles Caleb Colton, in History of Logan County and Ohio: Containing a History of the State of Ohio ..., O.L. Baskin, 1880, p.577
Chaste as the icicle That's curded by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act V, scene 3, line 66.
He bore a simple wild-flower wreath: Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose; Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows With purple bells; the amaranth bright, That no decay, nor fading knows, Like true love's holiest, rarest light; And every purest flower, that blows In that sweet time, which Love most blesses, When spring on summer's confines presses.
thomas love peacock— Rhododaphne, Canto I, line 107.
To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour , to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach , the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.
— Pablo Casals, in CONCERTS AT SAINT THOMAS - Saint Thomas Church
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
c. j. cherryh— The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh (2004) – from the introduction to "Visible Light"
Mathematical physics represents the purest image that the view of nature may generate in the human mind; this image presents all the character of the product of art; it begets some unity, it is true and has the quality of sublimity; this image is to physical nature what music is to the thousand noises of which the air is full...
— as quoted by Ilya Prigogine in his Autobiography given at the occasion of Prigogine's 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
michael foot— Debts of Honour, 1980.
The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema
alfred hitchcock— As quoted in Hitchcock (1967) by François Truffaut
Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children
siddharth katragadda— The Other Wife(2003) by Siddharth Katragadda page 15
The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting
siddharth katragadda— The Other Wife(2003) by Siddharth Katragadda page 44
So unaffected, so compos'd a mind;So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so retin'd;Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd;The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.
Alexander Pope— "Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet" (1730).
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?
stanislaw ulam— Chapter 11, The 'Super', p. 222
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
— Charles Caleb Colton, in History of Logan County and Ohio: Containing a History of the State of Ohio ..., O.L. Baskin, 1880, p.577
The purest treasure mortal times affordIs spotless reputation; that away,Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act I, scene 1, line 177.
Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.
Karl Barth— As quoted in The Beginnings of Dialectic Theology, Vol. 1 (1968) edited by James M. Robinson
[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.
isaac leib peretz— Quoted in Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), June 1952, p. 28. See Alle Verk, xii. 318.
I fear you. As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator of new worlds, the free human will, and stop up the purest well of human happiness the power of the one to face thousands, to stand up to peoples and generations.
isaac leib peretz— Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 279.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
john ruskin— Volume II, chapter V, section 30.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 14. Original found in a poem by Cardinal Barberini.
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
— Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) by Monty Python
There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.
Robert Browning— Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, Act I, scene 3.
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell.
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
michael foot— Michael Foot, Debts of Honour, 1980.
