Now it is established in the sciences

“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.”

— Avicenna

Author: Avicenna
Category: knowledge
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In the present state of our knowledge,

“In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?”

— Humphry Davy

Author: Humphry Davy
Category: knowledge
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