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The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

James Clerk Maxwell

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
The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.
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Arrive Eualation Measure Nation National Numerical Own Person Quantities Substuiting Such Value
Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
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Course Function Independent Least Perceived Show Sufficient Think Three Thrive Time Variable
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life.
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Accompanied Alternation Application Disturbance Doctrine Great Material Mental Popularisation Produce Scientific Society State
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
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
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Complete Equipment Four Mathematician Number Quality Regard Rule Said Whole World
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
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Advance Conscious Every Ignorance Prelude Rawal Science
Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.
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Current Expressed Indeed Language Opinion Phrase Respect Scientific Such
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
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
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Express Flatter Human Idea Language Mathematician Passes 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
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.
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Before Condition Day Descarte Few Great Involve Mental Newton Now Ourselves Philosopher Place Such Very
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science. The whole, theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the ‘Newton of Electricity’.
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Achievement Ampere Between Brilliant Current Electric Experiment Investigation Law Mechanical Most
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
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Between Exact Found Law Mathematical Number Physical Problem Reduce Relation Science
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
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

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