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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.

James Clerk Maxwell

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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
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
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 experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.
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Doctrine Evidence Against Experiment Mathematician Result Theory Verification
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
The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
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Degree Law Same Sea Second Statement Thermodynamics Throw Tumble Water
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
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
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
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Law Matter Mind Must Fabricate Only
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 should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis…
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Change Conjectural Expanse Fastened Found Hypothesis Interception Mist Rate Scientific Sorry Text
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
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
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
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
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
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Capacity Example Man More Set Wick

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