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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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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest…
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Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
— Alfred de Musset
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In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like…
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a…
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Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the…
— Unknown Author
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The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it…
— Pope Leo XII
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
— Augustus Hare
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of…
— Adam Clarke
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There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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