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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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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
— Charles Babbage
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint…
— Robert Burns
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating…
— George Washington
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are…
— Unknown Author
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It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will…
— George Washington
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with…
— George Sand
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is…
— Germaine Greer
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
— Gerrit Smith
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,…
— Henry George
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