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- ...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most… — Thomas Sprat
- From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe
- Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
- [Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with… — Thomas Edward Thorpe
- The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — James Pollard Espy
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his… — Henry David Thoreau
- The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and… — George Santayana