Humphry Davy Quotes

Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.

Humphry Davy

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• Discovery
• Investigation
• Theories

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• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Hate

• You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Girl
  • Learning
  • Guitar

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Any
  • Manchester

• I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Book
  • Tough

• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Future
  • President
  • Decisions

• In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Different

• Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • September
  • Terrorist
  • Attacks

• I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Path
  • Walking
  • Tree

• Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Forever
  • inspirational
  • Procrastination

• We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.

  

  Umar
  • Thinking
  • Trust
  • Differences

• What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembers in song and story, May your parents be proud, and ma our children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • Forgiveness
  • Hearts

• Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Sin
  • Sickness
  • Delusional

• Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Sex

• The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Happy
  • Hope
  • Darkness

• A cis-immunologist will sometimes speak to a trans-immunologist; but the latter rarely answers.

  

  Niels Kaj Jerne
  • Speak
  • Answer

• Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Darkness
  • Discovery
  • Investigation