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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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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
— Luther Burbank
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Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such…
— Bertrand Russell
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Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than…
— John Ruskin
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Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so…
— Charles Darwin
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why…
— Charles Darwin
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Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those…
— Thucydides
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If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit…
— Thucydides
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All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very…
— Jacques Monod
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. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot…
— Immanuel Kant
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