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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Man's Place in Nature.
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Misery is a match that never goes out.
Science is simply common sense at its best.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
