In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote … - Humphry Davy

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Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.

Humphry Davy

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy. . . its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

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Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

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Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

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