“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
Best“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“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”
Best“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.”
Experience“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”
Fear“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
Science“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“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“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Money“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.”
Science“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”
History“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“Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!”
Religion“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
Work“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“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“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“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
Fear“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
Nature“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
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