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I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric…

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The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes.…
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical…
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from…
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with…
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products…
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical…
The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling…
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of…

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Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe. — Charles Fletcher Dole
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