“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.