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“When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.”

Book:Marlborough and Other Poems

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Marlborough and Other Poems

This book is a compilation of poems that delve into the life and legacy of Marlborough, alongside other subjects. The poems explore various themes and emotions, offering readers a glimpse into the poet's perspective on historical and personal matters. more

Author

Charles Sorley

Charles Sorley was a British poet born in May 1895 and died in October 1915. His poetry is renowned for its profound emotion and exquisite technique. Despite his short life, his works have had a profound impact on literature. more

“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”

Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

“It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.”

Firsts Mankind Fundamentals Phenomenon Chemicals Denied Inquiry Combustion

Book:Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

“Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.”

Way Heart Kind May Stills Facts Use Light Seems Might Lying Certain Universe Lines Known Discovery Regard Deeper Genuine All Kinds Being True Explanation Phenomenon Shed Contradicting

Author:William Crookes

“The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.”

Dream Earth Sea Possibility Strange Elements Research Revelations Speculation Murmuring

Author:William Crookes

“Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Matter Earth Certain Force Elements Evident Wondrous

Book:A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

Source: A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

“But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.”

Way Mind Jobs Wander Phenomenon New Ways Measurement

Author:Val Logsdon Fitch

“At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory . But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.”