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William Cecil Dampier Biography

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William Cecil Dampier was a British scientist born in 1867 and died in 1952. He made significant contributions to the fields of geology, paleontology, and marine science.

Knows Said Seems Science Grows Knowledge Limits Research Surface Contact Spheres

Book:A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

“But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.”

Stills Science Window Accounts Sight Defiance Riddle

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“Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.”

Thinking Made Science Discovery Accidents Likes Rays

Author:William Cecil Dampier

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

“It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.”

Littles Done Together Framework Measurement Accuracy Decimals

Book:A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

“The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.”

Mind Science Order Understood Concepts Accounts Fundamentals Chaos Abstraction Framed Physical Science

Book:A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

About the Author

Born: 1867
Died: 1952
Known for: Scientist
Quotes: 6

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