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

Other quotes by George Eliot

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Hurt, Injury
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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Family
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Death is the king of this world: Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. – George Eliot

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Science
category

Im a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy – not so much horror because I get a bit scared. – Michael Sheen

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Science

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. – J. G. Ballard

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Science

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. – James D. Watson

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Science

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. – Robert Lanza

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Science

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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner

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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. – Mahatma Gandhi

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good

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Tradition

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you dont want, drink what you dont like, and do what youd rather not. – Mark Twain

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Health