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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though…

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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…

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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts… — Daniel Boone
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a… — John Herschel
Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy… — George Orwell
The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in… — Edward McKendree Bounds
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to… — Sun Tzu
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. — Mark Helprin
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And… — D. H. Lawrence
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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