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Humphry Davy has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to…
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The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of…
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The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.
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I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost…
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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,…
— Humphry Davy
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I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get…
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in…
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Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible…
— Theodor Reik
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