Quote #10

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

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  1. Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
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  4. Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
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  7. I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of N…
  8. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

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