“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
