My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

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Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

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

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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

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