J. Arthur Thomson Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
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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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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?
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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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There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.