"Bacon first taught the world the true method……" — Thomas Young
"Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master."
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10 Quotes by Thomas Young
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Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and…
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The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice…
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But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same…
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of…
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When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a…
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The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without…
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You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally,…
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Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
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Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is…
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More Aristotle Quotes
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is…
— Joseph Parker
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
— Owen Wister
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking.…
— Will Cuppy
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
— Florence Nightingale
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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