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Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

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In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, all...more

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In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if t...more

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Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made i...more

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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to ...more

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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, cou...more

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You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, di...more

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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 Septem...more

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See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental tre...more

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[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their...more

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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write th...more