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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…
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
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The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
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The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
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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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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower…
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
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Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of…
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Break into Alton Towers! I would… break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lips… before I left the world.…
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If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking…
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He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and…
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You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very…
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The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.
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Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like…
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