35 quotes found
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
“Learn what is true in order to do what is right.”
“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.”
“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”
“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.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”
“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.”
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
“It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.”
“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
