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Quote by George Eliot
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a char

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. – George Eliot

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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The science of life is changing hearts and minds. – Gary Bauer

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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt

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