Grove Karl Gilbert quotes
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“Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.”
-- Grove Karl GilbertSource : Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”
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“The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.”
-- Grove Karl GilbertSource : Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
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Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth
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