7 Quotes by J. Arthur Thomson

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    The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

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    Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

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    The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

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    The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

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    The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

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    A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

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