| The Quotations Continue |
| Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club." "The great tragedy of Science- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." "The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." "If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on conditions of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly disclose the offer." "Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men." "Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." "It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions." "I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic.'" Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) "The minority is always right." "One should never put on one's best trousers to go out and to battle for freedom and truth." William Ralph Inge (1860-?) "Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of counting votes instead of weighing them." "A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it." George Gordon Byron aka Lord Byron "For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?" "I am ashes where once I was fire." "Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!" "Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?" "Mark! Where his carnage and his conquest cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace! "Here all were noble, save Nobility." "The dome of thought, the palace of the soul." "Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore All ashes to the taste." "The tree will wither long before it fall." "I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture." "Time, the avenger!" "The weak alone repent." "But- Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all?" |
| Do you hear the cries of mourning? Maybe You should listen. |
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