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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley
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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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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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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
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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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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
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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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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
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