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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science a...

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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon...

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cau...

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindne...

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Humphry Davy

Chemist

Born: 1778-12-17

Died: 1829-05-29

Sir Humphry Davy (17 December, 1778 – 29 May, 1829), often incorrectly spelled Humphrey, was a Cornish chemist who discovered several chemical elements and studied the human body's response to electricity. He is generally credited with inventing the Miners' Safety Lamp, although George Stephenson also claimed the invention.More