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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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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice…
— Aeschylus
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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation,…
— John Foxe
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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
— Corra May Harris
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A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million…
— Andrew Carnegie
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He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.
— Joanna Baillie
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In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both…
— Ben Hecht
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose…
— Walter Scott
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
— Socrates
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How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and…
— Gilbert Highet
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