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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place… — Thomas Jefferson
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own,… — Jacques Monod
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features… — Ellsworth Huntington
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely… — Isaac Newton
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high… — Carl G. Fisher
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include… — Bertrand Russell
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized… — Charles Lyell
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There… — Louis Agassiz
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance… — Bertrand Russell
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain… — Louis Agassiz
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… — Hugh Miller
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And… — George Herbert
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester

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