"In completing one discovery we never fail to……" — Joseph Priestley
"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others."
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Joseph Priestley
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21 Quotes by Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley has 21 quotes on this site.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined.…
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the…
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he…
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are…
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider…
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of…
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no…
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I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I…
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More Completing Quotes
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I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of…
— David Cameron
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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the…
— John Carmack
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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything…
— Nikola Tesla
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The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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Each time I do a trilogy it's ten years out of my life. I'll finish Episode III and I'll be…
— George Lucas
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Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
— John le Carre
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Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is…
— Maurice Nicoll
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There is nothing more rewarding than completing a goal you have set for yourself.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out…
— Matthieu Ricard
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no…
— Joseph Priestley
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You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false…
— Richard Gere
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