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Facts are the body of science, and the idea of those facts is its spirit.

Samuel Morison Brown

By the scientific process there is effected the elaboration of a beautiful orderliness from the midst of a chaos of sensations.

Samuel Morison Brown

[The theory of molecules is an] ideal conception, placed by the mind like another Atlas underneath a measureless world of facts, to give them intelligible cohesion and hold them up to view.

Samuel Morison Brown

Naked science is cold and repulsive, except to the initiated and the predestined votary; but, clothed with its own biography, it becomes instinct with the warmth of life for all.

Samuel Morison Brown

The progress of science is as orderly and determinate as the movements of the planets, the solar systems, and the celestial firmaments. It is regulated by laws as exact and irresistible as those of astronomy, optics, or chemistry.

Samuel Morison Brown

Science is an ideal of the method of nature, and the production of that ideal is a true creation.

Samuel Morison Brown

Samuel Morison Brown

Samuel Morison Brown

Born: February, 1817

Died: September 20, 1856 (aged 39)

Bio: Samuel Morison Brown, Scottish chemist, poet and essayist. He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the fourth son of Samuel Brown, the founder of itinerating libraries, and grandson of John Brown, author of the Self-Interpreting Bible.

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