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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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The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types…
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done…
— David Lange
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The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The use of riches is better than their possession.
— Fernando de Rojas
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men…
— Humphry Davy
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Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be…
— Earl Nightingale
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
— Epicurus
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were…
— Eudora Welty
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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper…
— Eudora Welty
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile,…
— Samuel Gompers
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
— Dick Gregory
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Be careful your passions do not take control of your hearts; because in the beginning they will take you as their possession,…
— Ismail
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