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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limi

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. – 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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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley

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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. – Dean R. Koontz, Seize the Night

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. – Adam Smith

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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

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