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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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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. – Simon Newcomb

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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. – Thomas Huxley

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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