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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Science is organized knowledge.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.