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Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

James Clerk Maxwell

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The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
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Extent Hard Infinite Itself Man Many Material Mind Place Prep; Exed Question Space World
Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
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Always Electromagnetism Enlarge Faraday Father Must Remain Science
We define thermodynamics … as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.
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Body Constitution Deduct Define Entirely First Investigation Law Molecular Property Second Speculation Thermal Thermodynamics
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
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.
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Chiefly Difficulties Fix Geometric Illustration Image Longer Mathematical Regard Result Rotation Sensible Theory
It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.
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Always Deduce Dynamic Electro Formula Perfect Phenomena Unassailable
Gin a body meet a body Flyin’ through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?
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Body Flyin Gin Met Through
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.
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Country Death Deli Tous Expression Germ Hobby Invent Men Mission Other People Person Seem Structureless
But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.
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Attempt Christianity Harmonize Receive Result Science Stamp Think
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
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don’t, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.
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Chief Distinct Give Hold Lay Mind Nature Philosopher Something Tell Wrong
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
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Advance Conscious Every Ignorance Prelude Rawal Science
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
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God Into Look Most Non Philosophical Seem System
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.
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Endurable Great Interest Live Science Siccovery Some Take
Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.
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Certain Destroy Generate Het Process Show Substance
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

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