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On the Methods and Tendencies of Physical Investigation, p. 7.

— John Tyndall Scientific addresses (1870)

Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

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Faraday was not slow to anger, but he completely ruled his own spirit, and thus, though he took no cities, he captivated all hearts.

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A point highly illustrative of the character of Faraday now comes into view.

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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

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