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"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
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"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
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"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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"I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs."
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"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
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"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?"
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"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
Reason

"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."
Friendship

"It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this."I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself."Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.""The board-schools.""Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future."
Future

"Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental."
Knowledge

"That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered."
Philosophy

"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
Writing

"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
Responsibility

"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
Intelligence

"How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
Nature

"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
Courage
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