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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly read more
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem read more
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize read more
The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
