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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

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Hermann von Helmholtz

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

Conformity, Differences, Ease, Endeavoured, Law, Products
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All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Moral, Natural, Perfect, Science, Technology

The originator of a new concept. . . finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Concepts, Difficult, Discover, People, Rule, Understand

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Art, Connections, Music, Sensation, Stands

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

Backwards, Eventually, Mean, Ocean, Service, Time

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Immediate, May, Pursuit, Science, Utility, Vain
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