Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
From Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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