Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There exists indeed an opposition to it [ building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college ] by the friends of William and Mary,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The object most interesting to me for the residue of my life, will be to see you both developing daily those principles… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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