Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. Alexander Hamilton
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. Alexander Smith
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us. A. A. Gill
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. Alexander Herzen
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Alexander Pope
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way. Alexander Pope
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
This long disease, my life. Alexander Pope
This long disease, my life.
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev. Alexander III of Russia
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Alexander Pope
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. Alexander Pope
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. Alexander Pope
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. Alexander Pope
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. Alexander Pope
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! Alexander Pope
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! Alexander Pope
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. Alexander Pope
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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