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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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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
— Lord Acton
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I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places…
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With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in…
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It's hard to compare. Different times, different players. The administration four years ago did not have 9/11. I could tell you this;…
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
— Octavio Paz
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There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was,…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different…
— Louis Adamic
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Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think…
— Elisabeth Murdoch
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It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to…
— Pope Pius X
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If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see…
— Mose Allison
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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