“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“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“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”
Truth“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
Nature“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
Imagination“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
Faith“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Learning“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
Great“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
History“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
Money“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“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”
Freedom“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
Best“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
Science“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.”
Science“The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.”
Freedom“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.”
Knowledge“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
Faith“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
Best“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
Science“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.”
Experience