George Gore Quotes

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In order to attain scientific truth by means of study, the mind must contain clear ideas of the great principles of nature, systematically arranged in their order of degrees of intrinsic importance, and be experienced in tracing their relations and consequences.

George Gore
We are too apt to attribute to accident or occult influence that which we cannot understand.

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New knowledge is not like a cistern, soon emptied, but is a fountain of almost unlimited power and duration...

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The difficulties of research arise largely from our ignorance.

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Before we can completely explain a phenomenon we require not only to find its true cause, its chief relations to other causes, and all the conditions which determine how the cause operates, and what its effect and amount of effect are, but also all the coincidences.

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The area of scientific discovery enlarges rapidly as we advance; every scientific truth now known yields many questions yet to be answered. To some of these questions it is possible to obtain answers at the present time, others may only be decided when other parts of science are more developed.

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Existing knowledge is the basis of future discovery; all our knowledge of the future is implicitly wrapped up in nature; we require to stand upon the terra-firma of the known, in order to stretch outwards into the darkness and uncertainty of the unknown.

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Science is systematic knowledge; without the light of science, all is vague.

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The deepest truths require still deeper truths to explain them.

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We cannot intelligently love that which we cannot form an idea of, nor discover that which we cannot discriminate when it is present; and if we cannot discriminate truth, we cannot intelligently love it, nor can we discover it.

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Simplicity, whether truthful or not, is often attractive to unphilosophical minds, because it requires less intellectual exertion.

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The most extensive research is never complete, and never can be until it extends to the utmost bounds of knowledge.

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In every scientific question, even with the most intense meditation, men find that they soon come to the limits of new thoughts; a barrier, like a prison chamber, rises in every direction, which is impassable until new experiments are made, or new knowledge which bears upon the question is attained.

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Observation differs from experiment. By experiment we evolve facts, by observation we find them.

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If a man cannot acquire the knowledge of others without losing his independence of thought, it is evident he cannot become an original investigator.

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That which is beyond reason at present may not be so in the future; but it has now no place in science for want of a basis of verified truth.

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Science, more than anything else, causes us to be obedient to law. It is recognition of law which distinguishes science from superstition, intelligent men from savages.

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Science is the interpretation of nature, and man is the interpreter.

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Our power of scientific insight is but feeble when compared with the profundity of nature, because deep truths require deep thought to enable us to understand and value them.

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A discoverer is a tester of scientific ideas; he must not only be able to imagine likely hypotheses, and to select suitable ones for investigation, but, as hypotheses may be true or untrue, he must also be competent to invent appropriate experiments for testing them, and to devise the requisite apparatus and arrangements.

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Knowledge begets knowledge, as wealth begets wealth, and he who possesses much can with the greater facility obtain more.

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An investigator cannot, to any great degree, pick and choose discoveries, but must, to a large extent, be content to accept those he can find.

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In scientific study also, as in other abstruse meditations, the mind soon becomes exhausted by intense thinking, but is usually relieved by preparing and making experiments.

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Hypotheses are more varied than the truths of science; for every single new truth of science discovered by means of research, many hypotheses have been imagined.

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Next in importance to the skilful use of a gifted mind in research comes dexterous employment of the human hand.

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Scientific research deals fearlessly, not only with things that lie beyond our senses and observation, but also with those which altogether surpass even our conception or imagination; such as extremely minute and immensely great magnitudes, distances and velocities.

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