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“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”
“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.”
“Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
“The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.”
“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.”
“We are always at war with the idea that there is a single truth.”
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
“It is not events that disturb people, but their judgments concerning them.”
“At the still point of the turning world... there is only the dance.”
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
“We must consider both the ultimate end and the evidence of the senses.”
“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”
“Everything one invents is true; poetry is as precise as geometry.”