Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.
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.
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.
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
Man's Place in Nature.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.
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