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The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.Best?
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.Best?
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Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.Best?
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.Best?
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.Best?
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.Best?
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It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Best?
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Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.Best?
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.Best?
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.Best?
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Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.Best?
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.Best?
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Best?
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.Best?
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.Best?
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.Best?
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned.Best?
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.Best?
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.Best?
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.Best?
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.Best?
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.Best?
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