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We ought not to judge superior men without reference to the spirit of their age. This is an influence from which they cannot escape, and so far as it extenuates their errors it ought to be pleaded in their favour.

— John Tyndall New Fragments (1892)

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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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It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.

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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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