"What an admirable training is science for..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.
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“Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.”
“In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.”
“I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.”
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”
“We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.”
“Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.”