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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
-Thomas Huxley
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My Business Is To Teach My Aspirations

Thomas Huxley
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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Science ... warns me to be careful how i adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which i was previously hostile. my business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. they don't teach you how to love somebody. they don't teach you how to be famous. they don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. they don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. they don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. they don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. they don't teach you anything worth knowing.
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What are the facts? again and again and again – what are the facts? shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? you pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. get the facts!
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