"Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her."
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"Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same."
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"The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions."
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"Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances."
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"Science is but an image of the truth."
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"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
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"Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion."
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
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"Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule."
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"Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented."
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"For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others."
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"Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature."
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"The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man."
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"One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want."
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"In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy."
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"But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience."
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"The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air."
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"The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation."
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"I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen."
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"For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality."
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