"I have learned more from my mistakes than…" — Humphry Davy
"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."
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31 Quotes by Humphry Davy
Humphry Davy has 31 quotes on this site.
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But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be…
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
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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…
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Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or…
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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…
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected,…
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The progression of physical science is much more connected with your prosperity than is usually imagined. You owe to experimental…
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The…
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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning,…
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something…
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Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are…
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More Fault Quotes
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always…
— Richard Bach
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in…
— Kristen Bell
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change…
— Yogi Berra
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting…
— Valerie Bertinelli
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
— Lewis Black
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame…
— Anita Brookner
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It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.
— Herman Cain
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