"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
-Herbert Spencer
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"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.“
-Herbert Spencer
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
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"Science is organized knowledge."
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"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."
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"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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