“ Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ”
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“ The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. ”
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“ It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ”
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“ Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ”
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“ The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. ”
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“ Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ”
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“ Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ”
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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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“ Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. ”
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“ Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ”
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“ The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and selfrespect. ”
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“ Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. ”
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“ [Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side] A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. ”
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“ For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal. ”
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“ Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. ”
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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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“ No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value. ”
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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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“ No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. ”
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“ Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ”
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“ Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. ”
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“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against the truth. ”
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“ That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. ”
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“ The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”
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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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“ 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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“ In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ”
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“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against the truth. ”
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