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• ...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall…
• Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts…
• In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
• In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and…
• The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our…
• The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in…
• Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
• The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

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