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The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood…

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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…

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The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it… — Herman Cain
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil… — Tony Campolo
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially… — Winston Churchill
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose… — Seneca the Younger
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.… — Tim Ferriss
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. — Henrik Ibsen
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed… — Hans Selye
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women. — Ti-Grace Atkinson
I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government. — Alexander Hamilton
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than… — Vladimir Nabokov
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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