born May 4, 1825, Ealing, Middlesex, Eng. died June 29, 1895, Eastbourne, Sussex
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
"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."
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
"To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall."
"The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."
"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."
"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."
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