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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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Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Humphry Davy
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Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.
— Bobby Darin
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Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
— Lucian Blaga
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Adventure is out there, it’s heading our way So grab your scarf and goggles, let’s fly! I’ve mapped out our journey, we’re…
— Michael Giacchino
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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
— Heinrich Heine
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Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
— Mike Royko
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After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Testimony is not something you have today, and you are going to have always. A testimony is fragile. It is as hard…
— Harold B. Lee
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
— Jimi Hendrix
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