“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
History“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”
Patience“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
History“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
Nature“It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.”
Sad“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
Science“No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.”
Freedom“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
Time“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.”
Great“Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!”
Religion“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
Great“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”
Patience“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Science“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”
Freedom“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
Best“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.”
Wisdom“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
Imagination“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
Equality“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.”
Nature“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Great“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
Nature“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
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