The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents |
The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence |
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction |
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes |
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge. |
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying |
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact |
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact |
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. |
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. |
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. |
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist |
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. |
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental |
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. |