Language Quote by Humphry Davy

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“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”

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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

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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, that the…

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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 desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality…

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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 exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its…

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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

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