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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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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
— David Hume
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to…
— Unknown Author
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to…
— John Dewey
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been…
— Alfred Adler
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects…
— John Ruskin
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Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.
— Blake Griffin
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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…
— Humphry Davy
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Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It…
— Augustin Thierry
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity…
— Edward Snowden
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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