There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
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