“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.