 Misery is a match that never goes out. |
| Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. |
| It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. |
| Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. |
| It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. |
| My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. |
| Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. |
| History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. |
| The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. |
| Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. |
| It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. |
| 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. |
| The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. |
| Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. |
| No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. |
| Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. |
| The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. |
| The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. |
| Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. |
| It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. |
