“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
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.
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.