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• The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
• In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
• I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
• The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
• A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
• You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
• I cannot afford to waste my time making money
• In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
• When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
• I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
• I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
• One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…

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