If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.


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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you h...
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hum...
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If I may paraphrase Ho...
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
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The publication of the THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY For these two years I have been gravitating towards THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and e...
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Lyell and THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
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[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ...
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With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty o...
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All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactl...
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The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious...
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With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fou...
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits...
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I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for ...
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Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men
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The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibilit...
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It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions
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The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled...
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"Learn what is true in order to do what is right" is the summing up of the whole duty of man
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Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you ha...
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
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To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gall...
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me
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The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, s...
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Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in ...
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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h...
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The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f...
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The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne...
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A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words
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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
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The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterl...
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No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar...
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera...
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