“ Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ”
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“ It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. ”
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“ A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ”
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“ There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. ”
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“ The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ”
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“ The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable. ”
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“ Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain. ”
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“ There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics — none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ”
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“ Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ”
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“ Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. ”
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“ It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. ”
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“ Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ”
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“ Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. ”
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“ There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ”
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“ There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics — none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ”
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“ Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. ”
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“ Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ”
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“ I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction. ”
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“ Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ”
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“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ”
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“ The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. ”
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“ The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ”
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“ Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly. ”
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“ Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ”
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“ Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ”
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“ The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”
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“ It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. ”
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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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“ In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ”
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