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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone … the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds … that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth.

James Clerk Maxwell

I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding.
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Battering Breach Change Effect Ever Now Retuning Ring Saturn Several Solid Splash
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.
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Energy Field Files However Literally Speak Understood
When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.
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Appear Away Conduct Forget Gun Hundred Mile Record Seige Something Spin State Stop Stot
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
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
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
… 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
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
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

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone … the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds … that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth.

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