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Science commits suicide • when it adopts a creed. * * * * The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It i s simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact. ■3t* * There are men (and 1 think Priestley was one of them) to whom the satisfaction of throwing down a triumphant fallacy is as great its that which attends the discovery of a new truth; who . feel better satisfied with the government of the world, when they have been helping Providence by knocking an . imposture on the head ■ and who care even mote for freedom of thought than tor mere advance of knowledge. These men are the Carnots who organise victory for truth, and they are, at least, as important us the g neral s who visibly fight her battles in the field.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1931, Page 1
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151APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1931, Page 1
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