"Nothing tends so much to the advancement of……" — Humphry Davy
"Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument."
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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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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.…
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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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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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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a…
— William S. Burroughs
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career…
— Patrick Lencioni
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it…
— Eric Hoffer
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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