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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
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The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…
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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I…
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In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to…
— Charles Lyell
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From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned…
— Alice Hamilton
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I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the…
— Maureen Dowd
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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first…
— Fritz Zwicky
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Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew…
— David Stockman
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of…
— Douglass North
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I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for…
— Roy Spencer
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We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin,…
— W. Averell Harriman
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