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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
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"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."


"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."


"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."


"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."


"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."


"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me."
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