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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to…

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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…

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The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell
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The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable… — Kenneth Clarke
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have… — Walter J Chantry
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge… — Hermann von Helmholtz
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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