"A schism has taken place among the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.
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“It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
“I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.”
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“Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.”
“Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.”
“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”