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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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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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Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.
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