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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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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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In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and…
— Saint Augustine
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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it…
— Homer
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My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to…
— Smohalla
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At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ…
— John Calvin
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in…
— William Wordsworth
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She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet…
— Terry Pratchett
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I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can't be close to…
— Jayne Mansfield
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At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon…
— Charles Dickens
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Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she…
— Wovoka
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The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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