"Science rests on reason and experiment, and can……" — James Anthony Froude
"Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive."
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93 Quotes by James Anthony Froude
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- In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
- Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
- No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and…
- Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty.
- English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy…
- We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
- The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
- The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
- Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
- Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can…
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