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• Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
• One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,…
• But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception:…
• In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.
• The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There…
• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so…
• The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
• People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not…
• I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.
• The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and…
• All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is…

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