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“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”

Ifs Knows Giving Body Past Science Asks Ability Knowledge Tools Accounts Originals Cumulative

Author:C.P. Snow

“To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.”

Mean Has Beens Different Science Understanding Ability Flower Capacity Stones Tasks Ill Sufficient Honour Shells Lowest Newton Unworthy Labourers

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.”

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service

“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”

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Book:Philosophical Writings of Peirce

Source: Philosophical Writings of Peirce

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius