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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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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not…
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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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You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
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The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who…
— Al-Shafi‘i
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
— Russell M. Nelson
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If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
— Ben Bernanke
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The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the…
— Eben Alexander
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God…
— Caitlin Thomas
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Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
— Thomas Carlyle
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