All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
From Thomas Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
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.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
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