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• Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
• The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
• According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
• Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
• All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
• [When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
• Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
• It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
• The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
• Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
• Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
• ...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…

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