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Humphry Davy has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even…
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I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who…
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I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was…
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Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or…
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It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.
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Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments…
— John Templeton
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It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!
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Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.
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Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He…
— Chico Xavier
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If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly…
— Ignatius Loyola
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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations…
— Humphry Davy
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Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women…
— Robin Hayes
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