I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Scientific progress Science

Speaker

The Rev. Dr. Opimian

Author

Thomas Love Peacock

Source

Gryll Grange

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Peacock, Thomas Love. "Gryll Grange." Fraser's Magazine, 1860.

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton
Source
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Language
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Time
1687 1680s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Childhood

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Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations
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Novel
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Coming of age story
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English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 29 Dec. 1860, issue 5, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 8.

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Edwin Edwards

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Political campaigns Political scandals
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Edwin Edwards
Medium
Speech
Statement Type
Political joke Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1983 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Edwards, Edwin. Spoken while campaigning for governor of Louisiana. 1983, LA, USA.