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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of…
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…
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Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…
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Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees…
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In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver…
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Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke…
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long…
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