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Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we…

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...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall…
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts…
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and…
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our…
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in…
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

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This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator. — Meister Eckhart
Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read… — William Whewell
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an… — Charles Darwin

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