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Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper… — George Herbert
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified… — James Bryant Conant
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. — Francis Bacon
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every… — John Owen
We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before… — Charles Spurgeon
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the… — John Owen
As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a… — Albert Einstein
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse… — Willis R. Whitney
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system… — Thomas A. Edison
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become… — Martin Sheen
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take… — Muhammad Yunus
... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for… — Winston Churchill
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… — Louis Pasteur
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's… — Muhammad Yunus
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature. — Francis Bacon
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz

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