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“[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.”

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Physicist, born on June 26, 1824, and died on December 17, 1907. Known for his contributions to thermodynamics and the invention of the thermodynamic thermometer. more

“As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.”

Facts Science

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. Illustrated by W. H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and Other Artists. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical, by Allan Cunningham

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. Illustrated by W. H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and Other Artists. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical, by Allan Cunningham

“Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.”

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Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”

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Author:Thomas W. Moore

“Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.”

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