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The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments,…

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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…

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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. — Andre Malraux
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his… — Abraham Maslow
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior… — Confucius
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the… — Ida B. Wells
The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of… — James Clerk Maxwell
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth… — Charles Spurgeon
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex… — Charles Caleb Colton
Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency… — Anita Dunn
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. — James Huneker
In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable… — Theodore Roethke
When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester… — George R. R. Martin

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