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10 Quotes for 'Sir Humphrey Davy' in the Database.
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Sir Humphrey Davy Quotes
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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
Topic: Politics / Government
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
- Sir Humphrey Davy,
Topic: Science
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be
understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Topic: Science
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Topic: Science
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on
the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself
and before nature.
Topic: Science
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's
living at it.
Topic: Science
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they
were truly religious men because of their faith in the
orderliness of the universe.
Topic: Science
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of
hypotheses or axioms.
Topic: Science
Source: Consolations in Travel--Dialogue V--The Chemical Philosopher
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The child of trial, to mortality
And all its changeful influences given;
On the green earth decreed to move and die,
And yet by such a fate prepared for heaven.
Topic: Trials
Source: Written after Recovery from a Dangerous Illness
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