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John Tyndall
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John Tyndall
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John Tyndall was an Irish physicist.
Scientific addresses (1870)
- Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
- On the Methods and Tendencies of Physical Investigation, p. 7
Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)
- Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
- Vitality
- The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.
- Matter and Force
- The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
- Scientific Materialism
- It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
- Science and Man
- Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God.
- Science and Man
- Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.
- Science and Man
- Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.
- Professor Virchow and Evolution
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