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Science Quotes by George Iles
- Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig…
- Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
- Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.
- Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
- A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
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