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"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"I teach that all men are mad."
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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
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"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
Men
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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"The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand."
Accuracy
"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Error
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Error
"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions."
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"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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