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We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Heinrich Burkhardt
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a… — Svante Arrhenius
All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these… — John Henry Comstock
Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems. — Stanford Moore
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures… — Robert Boyle
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is… — William Lawrence Bragg
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. — James R Newman
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down… — David Rice
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of… — William J. Brennan
The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various… — Kersey Graves
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of… — R. J. Hollingdale
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ...… — Elisha Gray
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade
The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant… — Murray Kempton
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin

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