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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Jefferson :: View Quote View Quote "If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Jefferson Listed in: Science Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.2  Rate Quote 5 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Jefferson "I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one." "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man." "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." Top 5 quotes from Science "Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." "Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them." "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." "All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it." "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

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