Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as...

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as...

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

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

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause...

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause...

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to...

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to...

Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men

Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do...

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do...

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a...

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a...

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they...

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they...

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as...

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as...

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.