Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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"To expand one's understanding is to expand one's freedom."
Jacques Charles
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"To expand the boundaries of knowledge is to expand human freedom."
Jacques Charles
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"The pursuit of understanding is the pursuit of freedom."
Jacques Charles
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"Every discovery is a small liberation from ignorance."
Jacques Charles
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"To study gases is to study freedom constrained by natural law."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The electron's orbital is not a prison but a probability of presence and possibility."
Gilbert Lewis
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"Freedom of thought is the foundation upon which all other freedoms rest."
Jacques Charles
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"Freedom is the law of nature and cannot be limited without injustice."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Freedom is the foundation of all rights."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Freedom is the right of all thinking beings."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"To be truly free is to understand necessity."
Robert Boyle
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"The advancement of human knowledge is the advancement of human freedom."
Robert Boyle
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"Freedom of thought is the prerequisite for any genuine discovery."
August Kekulé
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"Intellectual freedom is the lifeblood of scientific progress."
Gilbert Lewis
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"I refuse to be limited by society's expectations."
Caroline Herschel
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"I have lived my life on my own terms."
Caroline Herschel
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"My telescope has been my liberation."
Caroline Herschel
"In the pursuit of knowledge, we overcome the limitations of our birth and circumstance."
William Herschel
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"I preferred the company of stars to the judgment of society."
Caroline Herschel
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"I have lived more fully in one night of astronomical observation than in a year of social convention."
Caroline Herschel
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"In my catalogue, the universe became knowable; in my dedication, I became free."
Caroline Herschel
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"The mind must be disciplined like a soldier, yet free like a bird."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"A man devoted to truth cannot be enslaved by opinion or fashion."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"I have witnessed how scientific knowledge liberates human understanding."
John Dalton
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"The freedom to question is the foundation of all scientific advancement."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"The mind engaged in genuine inquiry experiences freedom no political system can grant."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"The freedom to think is the freedom most essential to all other freedoms."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"Freedom without knowledge is like a ship without charts upon the sea."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Women need not apologize for seeking knowledge in the heavens or on earth."
Caroline Herschel
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"I never sought permission to think; I simply thought."
Caroline Herschel