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

~Thomas Huxley

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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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

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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

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

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

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 4th, 1825

Died: June 29th, 1895

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