Science Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

13 Science quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

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Disraeli’s political flair doesn’t eclipse his interest in scientific progress. These 13 quotes provide a concise look at how his statesman’s perspective intersected with the era’s intellectual currents.

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Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

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Nature is stronger than education.

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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

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What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

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In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

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Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

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A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

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The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the…

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It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we…

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Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones,…

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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful…

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You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the…

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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

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I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

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Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

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Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim…

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