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Quotes from Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science — William Crookes

1832–1919 England

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To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

A formidable range of phenomena must be scientifically sifted before we effectually grasp a faculty so strange, so bewildering, and for ages so inscrutable as the direct action of mind on mind.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

It has been said that "Nothing worth the proving can be proved, nor yet disproved."

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

But difficulties are things to be overcome even in the elusory branch of research known as experimental psychology.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

I was like some two-dimensional being who might stand at the singular point of a Riemann's surface, and thus find himself in infinitesimal and inexplicable contact with a plane of existence not his own.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

I have nothing to retract. I adhere to my already published statements.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous, and it is unscientific to call in the aid of mysterious agencies when, with every fresh advance in knowledge, it is shown that ether vibrations have powers and attributes abundantly equal to any demand — even to the transmission of thought.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

Science has trained and fashioned the average mind into habits of exactitude and disciplined perception, and in so doing has fortified itself for tasks higher, wider, and incomparably more wonderful than even the wisest among our ancestors imagined.

Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)

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