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Science Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
- I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
- The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of…
- Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of…
- Freedom, the first-born of science.
- Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences…
- The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of…
- With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,…
- I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the…
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to…
- During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its…
- And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light…
- ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation…
- Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque…
- While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it…
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
- The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
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- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov