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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley , Scientist
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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness....
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher....
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be ce...
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men....
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear....
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect....
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact....
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic....
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother....
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability....

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven....
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers....
I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main...
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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I...
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day....
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