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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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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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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
— Edmund Burke
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished…
— Unknown Author
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What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in…
— Carl Sagan
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If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile…
— Albert Einstein
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Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.
— David Bowie
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
— Ambrose Bierce
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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will…
— William Cowper
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What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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