Poems List

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
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It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
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Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
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