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Science Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of…
- The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
- Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
- If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree…
- The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description,…
- Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.
- The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and…
- This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly…
- That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
- The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its…
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