At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
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Another contrivance for regulating the effect of machinery consists in a vane or fly, of little weight, but presenting a large surface.
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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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Every minute dies a man, And one and one-sixteenth is born
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
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