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Type: Scientist Quotes Category: American Scientist Quotes Date of Birth: December 3, 1838 Date of Death: December 29, 1916 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Cleveland Abbe Related Authors: Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead George Wald Jim Fowler Clifford Geertz Maria Mitchell Joshua Lederberg Kenneth G. Wilson |
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe I have started that which the country will not willingly let die. Cleveland Abbe It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. Cleveland Abbe My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. Cleveland Abbe The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. Cleveland Abbe True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. Cleveland Abbe |
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