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“Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.”

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Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent…

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Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

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Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

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Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other…

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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of…

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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

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Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name…

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Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair"…

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In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the…

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And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than…

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