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Hence Quotes by William Whewell
- The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to…
- The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is…
- Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending…
- According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and…
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
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- As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,… — James Hutton
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- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must… — Jane Addams
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