Misery is a match that never goes out.

Quote by Thomas Huxley

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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The...

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The...

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their...

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their...

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for...

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for...

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may,...

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may,...

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

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.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by...

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by...

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived...

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived...

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try...

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try...

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has...

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has...

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of...

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of...

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly...

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly...

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall...

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall...

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's...

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's...