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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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Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
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Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we…
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This is our one and only chance at mortal life-here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that…
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He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest…
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To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the…
— John Herschel
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I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging…
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Some of life's greatest lessons are learned in the school of affliction.
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