People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something , finding something else on the way.
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let’s go!
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.
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