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Humphry Davy has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation &…
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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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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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Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when…
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Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf,…
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