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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting…

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The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes.…
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical…
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from…
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with…
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products…
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical…
The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling…
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of…

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore de Balzac
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. — Samuel Johnson
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality… — Victor J. Stenger
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of… — Thomas Traherne
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — Isaac Newton
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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