Not who you're looking for? Others named John Tyndall: Irish physicist (1820–1893) · Canadian poet · English politician, prominent figure in British nationalism
“Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate boundaries.”
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.”
“The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.”
“It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.”
“Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men — a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God.”
“Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.”
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