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"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."

"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."

"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."

"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."

"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
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