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Humphry Davy has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no…
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There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.
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Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force…
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Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
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When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of…
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To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.
— Hollis Frampton
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If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a…
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One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you…
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An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.
— Unknown Author
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Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things,…
— Rose Macaulay
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You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting…
— Paul Feig
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