Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. ... Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.
- Thomas Huxley
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one’s own mind on any subject than by... It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the... A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts... Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally,... Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he... Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out... Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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