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Science Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
- No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have…
- The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we…
- The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
- The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have…
- The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm…
- A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for…
- In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the…
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