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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
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The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
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Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
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