"In early life I had felt a strong……" — John William Draper
"In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction."
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John William Draper
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13 Quotes by John William Draper
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Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium…
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of…
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all…
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Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
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I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight…
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As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take…
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Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of…
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How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in…
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Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and…
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Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment,…
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Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and…
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