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7 John Tyndall Quotes

John Tyndall's collection feels like a grand, scientific conversation about waves, proof, and truth, suited for curious minds.

John Tyndall quotes

  1. Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

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  2. 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.

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  3. The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

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  4. It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.

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  5. 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.

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  6. Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.

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  7. 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.

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