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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 these distant worlds…

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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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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of… — James Clerk Maxwell
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves… — Derek Walcott
Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat. — Michael Hussey
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. — William Shakespeare
Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between… — Claude Monet
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules. — Gagan Narang
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry

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