What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet know.

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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

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