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I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.
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My aim has been, not only to go once more through the task of Albert Durer, but to execute it also on an extended scale.
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I have been surprised to find how little variety of opinion exists, in different places, regarding what they concurred in terming the beautiful.
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To him... who had examined the laws of light merely in a drop of water, the brilliant phenomenon of the rainbow would be totally unintelligible.
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It has seemed to me that the theory (calcul) of probabilities ought to serve as the basis for the study of all the sciences, and particularly of the sciences of observation.
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Expect not... that efforts for the moral regeneration of man can be immediately crowned with success; operations upon masses are ever slow in progress, and their effects distant.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Born:
February 22, 1796
Died:
February 17, 1874
(aged 77)
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