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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 science are effecting…

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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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Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to… — Alfred Binet
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of… — James Clerk Maxwell
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury
I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state.… — Stephanie Klein
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is… — Unknown Author
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. — Cyril Connolly
My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys,… — Warren G. Harding
In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath… — Thomas Raymond Kelly
Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It… — Pal Benko
You must fully understand, strongly believe in, and be totally committed to your trading philosophy. In order to achieve that mental state,… — Richard Driehaus
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state. — Stefan Molyneux
Today in the west we are asking the question, why is man unhappy? Answer is very simple. We have created a very… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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