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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…
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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…
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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
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Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
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Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
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The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
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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…
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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 ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to…
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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
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Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
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