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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world… — Immanuel Kant
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the… — Charles Lyell
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… — Francis Bacon
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to… — Francis Bacon
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if… — Pliny the Elder
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that… — David Hume
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
First causes are outside the realm of science. — Claude Bernard
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in… — John Playfair
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which… — Ernest Holmes
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one. — Laurence Sterne

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