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Humphry Davy has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil…
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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
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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…
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Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at…
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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,…
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
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Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said,…
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or…
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The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some…
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or…
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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit…
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,…
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound…
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If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you…
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound…
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that…
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals…
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not…
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human…
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that…
— Charles Babbage
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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