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"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."
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"Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong."
"God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man."
"The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!"
"It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals."
"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."
"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."
"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false."
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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