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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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