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- I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I…
- The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of…
- The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum…
- I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,…
- What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy…
- I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense…
- What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
- For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this…
- The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
- The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial…
- Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
- Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
- No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
- Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
- The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in…
- There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a…
- I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of…
- The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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