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How extremely stupid not to have thought of that

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?