“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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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
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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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