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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
— Pope Leo XIII
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
— James Hutton
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It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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With destruction comes renovation.
— Wally Lamb
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These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
— Umberto Boccioni
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Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At…
— Alexis Carrel
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And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still…
— Deirdre Imus
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And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances];…
— Humphry Davy
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The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.
— Reinhard Bonnke
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In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.
— Rumi
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