“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
Science“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Science“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
Science“No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.”
Freedom“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
Equality“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“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
Money“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
Fear“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Learning“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
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“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
Best“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”
Power“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
Science“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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
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“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”
Politics“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Money“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
Time“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
History“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
Faith