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It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,…

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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…
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
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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