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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil…
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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…
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Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at…
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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,…
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
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Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said,…
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or…
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The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental philosophy some…
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or…
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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit…
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,…
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,…
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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and…
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which…
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It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of…
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I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said…
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Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A…
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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
— Gregory Bateson
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Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion…
— Kary Mullis
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Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world,…
— Humphry Davy
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
— Abdus Salam
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The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his…
— James G. Frazer
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