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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
[ Facts ]
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
[ Common Sense ]
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
[ Knowledge ]
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
[ Danger ]
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
[ Truth ]
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
[ Right and Rightness ]
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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
[ Truth ]
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
[ Consequences ]
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
[ Perseverance ]
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
[ Common Sense ]
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
[ Morality ]
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
[ Action ]
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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
[ Sentiment ]
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
[ Failure ]
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
[ Learning ]
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