“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
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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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