J. Arthur Thomson quotes
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“The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.”
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“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”
-- J. Arthur ThomsonSource : J. Arthur Thomson (2008). “The Outline of Science, First Volume”, p.185, Wildside Press LLC
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“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.”
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“Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?”
-- J. Arthur ThomsonSource : J. Arthur Thomson (2008). “The Outline of Science, First Volume”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC
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“The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.”
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“There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.”
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“A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.”
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“The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.”
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