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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.