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A successful pursuit of science makes a man the benefactor of all mankind and of every age.
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined.
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More is owing to what we call chance... than to any proper design or preconceived theory in this business.
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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I have procured air [oxygen]...between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
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As the greatest things often take their rise from the smallest beginnings, so the worst things sometimes proceed from good intentions.
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It may, perhaps, be true, though we cannot distinctly see it to be so, that as all finite things require a cause, infinites admit of none.
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I view with rapture the glorious face of nature, and I admire its wonderful constitution, the laws of which are daily unfolding themselves to our view.
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When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
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The history of science cannot but animate us in our attempts to advance still further, and suggest methods and experiments to assist us in our future progress.
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
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The History of Electricity is a field full of pleasing objects, according to all the genuine and universal principles of taste, deduced from a knowledge of human nature.
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It sometimes happens to men whose genius far transcends the level of their day, to be from that very circumstance neither understood nor believed by their contemporaries.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
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From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
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Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
March 26, 1733
Died:
February 6, 1804
(aged 70)
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