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 | "Consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise
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Found in the topic Consequences.
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| "A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words." | |
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Found in the topic Fact.
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| "A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise
to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded
because the people who undertook them did not count the cost." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and
as full of untold novelties for him who has eyes to see them." | |
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Found in the topic World.
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| "A man"s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he
likes." | |
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Found in the topic Begin.
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| "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." | |
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Found in the topic Gravity.
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| "Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against
truth." | |
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Found in the topic Teenagers.
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| "It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to
end as superstitions." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important." | |
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Found in the topic Courage.
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| "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the Ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not." | |
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Found in the topic Ability.
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| "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned
errors." | |
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Found in the topic Error.
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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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Found in the topic Science.
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| "The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the
universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The
player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is
always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he
never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for
ignorance." | |
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Found in the topic Mistake.
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| "I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well." | |
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Found in the topic Teach.
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| "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much
as to be out of danger?" | |
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Found in the topic Danger.
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| "The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand
on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our
business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land." | |
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Found in the topic Infidelity.
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| "Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something." | |
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Found in the topic Epitaphs.
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| "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute
rejection of authority." | |
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Found in the topic Authority.
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| "The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold
a man"s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat
higher." | |
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Found in the topic Growth.
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| "This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted
accuracy of mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly
inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them.
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which
grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you
get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world
will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not
get a definite result out of loose data." | |
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Found in the topic Mathematics.
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