Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
By denying scientific principals, one may maintain any paradox.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
