"It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect."
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"Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go."
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"We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire."
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"There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy."
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"What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?"
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"Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it."
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"There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone."
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"What we need to know in any case is very simple."
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"Some creatures are made to see in the dark."
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"The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method."
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"History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?"
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"The researcher is more memorable than the researched."
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"There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred."
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"Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote."
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"Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary."
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"Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction."
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"Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference."
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"Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence."
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"Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn."
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"It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them."
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