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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accur

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. – Thomas Huxley

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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin. – Thomas Huxley

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Faith
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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 certain of making them unhappy. – Thomas Huxley

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sad
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. – Thomas Huxley

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It is no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. – Winston Churchill

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel. – Alexander Pope

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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. – Dorothy Day

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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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