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But that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

James Clerk Maxwell

But that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
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Appear Doctrine Emotion Gymnastic Highest Matter Science
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
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Advance Conscious Every Ignorance Prelude Rawal Science
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.
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Anothermeffect Less Mind Nature Professed Scientific Secret Through Unravel Valuable Work Worker
It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.
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Believe Condition Enjoyable Existence Law Mind Must Mystery Universe
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
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All Between Found Law Mathematically Number Physical Relation Science
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable.
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Christ Christmas Coundm Study Learn Men Mind Need Other Science Scientific Think View Well
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.
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All Another Diamond Focus Glass Merge Outlines Phenomenal Pitch Put Screw Sometimes Theory Thing Unless
Wherein they fancy intersperses Long avenues of universes, While Klein and Clifford fill the void With one finite, unbounded homoloid, And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.
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Avenue Country Destroy Fancy Infinite Long People Person Think Unbound Universe
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
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Amount Build Data Every Branch Facility Fact Knowledge Obtain Progress Proportional Therefore
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.
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Advantage Always Assimilate Great Memories Mostly Original Raed Science Student Subject
What’s the go of that? What’s the particular go of that?
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Go Particular
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.
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Express Flatter Human Idea Language Mathematician Mere Possess Themselves Unable Yet
The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.
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Biblical Bury Change Ground Hypothesis Interpretation Dimension Long More Rate Scientific
… that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
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Approximately Constant Estimate Few Great Left Men Occupation Only Physical Science Will Work Year
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena.
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Appear Aspect Different Electric Found Lecture Light Mean Project Science Woom
The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.
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Always Apparatus Going Home Made Student Use Wrong

But that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

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But that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.

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