Joseph Priestley Quotes About Science
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The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.
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I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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