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- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an… — Thomas A. Edison
- Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt… — Knut Hamsun
- Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting… — Lord Acton
- Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
- When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the… — Claude Bernard
- Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and… — Cecil Frank Powell
- We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be… — Brigham Young
- With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to… — William Hazlitt
- Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and… — Severo Ochoa