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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Endure Every Evidence Facts False Harm Highly Little Long Often Pleasure Progress Proving Science Some Supported Takes Views

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I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Any Beloved Cannot Every Facts Forming Free Give However Hypothesis Keep Mind Much Opposed Resist Shown Soon Steadily Subject Up

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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Am Conclusions Facts Grinding Machine Observing Out Sort Turned I Am

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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Become Collections Facts General Grinding Kind Large Laws Machine Mind Out Seems

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The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

~Charles Edwards

Topics: Advertisement Chance Facts Included Increases Invariably Merchandise More Number Sell Success Tell You

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

~Charles Henry Parkhurst

Topics: Always Bring Directly Facts Most Safest Those Us Which Words

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Another Facts Imaginations People Society Solid Which

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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

~Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Topics: Always Arrange Believe Benefit Eager Easy Facts Masses Nothing Since Something

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Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

~Charles Mccabe

Topics: Any Art Facts Having Opinions

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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

~Charles Sanders Peirce

Topics: Been Belief Facts Finding Harmony Inquiring Intent Less Man Most Out Philosophers Scientific Sometimes Strike System Than Will

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