I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in … - Humphry Davy

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The one thing I've learned to do that I never thought I had the ability to do is I don't watch CNN anymore.

Humphry Davy

I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. . . . He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

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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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