Auguste Laurent famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.
-- Auguste Laurent -
From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?
-- Auguste Laurent -
I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
-- Auguste Laurent
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Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.
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Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
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In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Unperformed experiments have no results.
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Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
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Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.
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Consider everything an experiment.
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Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false).
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