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"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
Irreverence
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
Question
"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
Mind
"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
Knowledge
"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved."
Science
"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
Society
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation."
Action
"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."
Men
"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."
Dissent
"The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."
People
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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Personal Development
"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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Personal Development
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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Personal Development
"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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Personal Development
"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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Personal Development
"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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Personal Development
"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation."
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Personal Development
"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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Personal Development
"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
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Personal Development
"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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