There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
