Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
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 anoth...
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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.
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled do...
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.