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• Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
• Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than…
• By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught…
• The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put…
• What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be
• Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…
• And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in…
• The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

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