"Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning."
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"Common sense is genius in homespun."
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"The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought."
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"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."
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"A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity."
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"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
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"I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine."
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"A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost."
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"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
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"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."
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"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
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"Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things."
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"Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling."
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"In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world"
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"What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation."
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"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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"I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology."
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"The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used."
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