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• To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…
• But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil…
• The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some…
• Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit…
• The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,…
• Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that…
• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men…
• Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation &…

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