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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter…
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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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This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to…
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My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative…
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I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit…
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