“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
Science“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Money“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
Science“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Science“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Learning“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“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
Truth“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.”
Education“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“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
History“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
Science“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.”
Science“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”
Freedom“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“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
Equality“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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Science“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
Art“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
Time“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