Wisdom Quotes · Page 58
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“The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.”
“The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.”
“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”
“Any physical object which by its influence deteriorates its environment, commits suicide.”
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
“Money spent on research brings practical results that absolutely justify the investment.”
“Advances in genetics will soon let us intervene in disease before symptoms appear.”
“But my belief is that there is nothing we can't accomplish if we set our minds to it.”
“The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.”
“Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with me.”
“Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become.”
“Men are microcosms, or little worlds; each man has his distinct sphere, wherein he dwells apart.”
“It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion.”
“A man will do little by firing off his gun if he has not learned to take aim.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”