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Science (n.) is but an image of the truth.
Science (n.) is active not in syllogistic logic, but when axioms are duly and orderly formed from particulars to discover the way to new particulars.
Science (n.) estranges a man from God when it is only a little. A lot of science brings him back.
Science (n.) is half putting forth the right questions.
Science (n.) , in contrast to logic, ought to flow not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.
Progress (n.) is incremental. We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Progress (n.) is, in science, unachievable from the mere superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old... rather, we must begin anew from the very foundations.
Progress (n.) is always moving on. Even acorns were good until bread was found.
Progress (n.) is impossible without great risk. If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
Progress (n.) is a thing whereby the greatest innovator of all is time.... as such, he who will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Reading (n.) makes a full man, just as conference makes a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Reading (n.) is done best not in order to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.
Reading (n.) is not what makes us learned; it is what we remember that makes us learned.
Peace (n.) is better than war because in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers bury their sons.
Painting (n.) is an accident from which one must intentionally select what parts to preserve.
The Philosopher (n.) is the servant of posterity.
Revenge (n.) is that through which man becomes even with his enemy... but in passing it over, he is superior.
Revenge (n.) is a kind of wild justice.
Revenge (n.) is a but wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Revenge (n.) is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Revenge (n.) keep one's own wounds green.
Revenge (n.) is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Revenge (n.) is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out; for as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law, but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Rhetoric (n.) is different from logic as the palm is different from the fist... the one is an opening up, the other is a closing.
Context (n.) is everything. In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.