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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
— John Herschel
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing…
— Plutarch
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No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors…
— Walter Lippmann
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
— Plutarch
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.
— P T Barnum
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The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this…
— Eric Ludy
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The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.…
— P T Barnum
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