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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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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal…
— Honore de Balzac
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy…
— Johannes Brahms
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No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.
— Unknown Author
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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
— Mark Twain
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I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the…
— Charles Darwin
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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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We become what we habitually contemplate
— George Russell
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Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.
— Madeleine de Scudery
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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
— Bruce Lee
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.…
— Robert Grudin
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