The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
From Thomas Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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