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Science Quotes by Thomas Young
- Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle,…
- Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise…
- The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it…
- Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
- Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions…
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