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Science Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,…
- What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
- There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished…
- And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
- Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
- Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both…
- Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- What is the use of a new-born child ?
- He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
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