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"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."
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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."
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"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
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"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."
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"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
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"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."
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"There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth."
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"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
Generalization
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
Government
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."
Man
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
Cure
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
Land
"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
Age
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
Poetry
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