The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Quote by Thomas Huxley

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to...

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to...

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world....

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world....

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

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...

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as...

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as...

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and...

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and...

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

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...

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what...

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what...

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...

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end...

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end...

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them....

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them....