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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

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ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

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What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

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