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An atom is a body which cannot be cut in two.
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[Atoms].the imperishable foundation-stones of the universe.
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The mathematician has, above all things, an eye for symmetry.
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Force, then is Force, but mark you! not a thing, Only a Vector.
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In every experiment we have first to make our senses familiar with the phenomenon.
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At any rate the atoms are a very tough lot, and can stand a great deal of knocking about...
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Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.
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Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Wil it fly? and where?
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
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One of the severest tests of a scientific mind is to discern the limits of the legitimate application of the scientific method.
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How the learned fool would wonder
Were he now to see his blunder,
When he put his reason under
The control of worldly Pride.
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An inextensible heavy chain Lies on a smooth horizontal plane, An impulsive force is applied at A, Required the initial motion of K.
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I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
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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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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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The world may be utterly crazy
And life may be labour in vain;
But I'd rather be silly than lazy,
And would not quit life for its pain.
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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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The human mind is seldom satisfied, and is certainly never exercising its highest functions, when it is doing the work of a calculating machine.
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How freely he scatters his atoms before the beginning of years; How he clothes them with force as a garment, those small incompressible spheres!
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In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
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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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I hope you enjoy the absence of pupils...the total oblivion of them for definite intervals is a necessary condition for doing them justice at the proper time.
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We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
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Nature is a journal of science, and one of the several tests of a scientific mind is to discern the limits of the legitimate application of scientific methods.
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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
June 13, 1831
Died:
November 5, 1879
(aged 48)
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