Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCERIn science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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