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There is but one right, and the possibilities of 

 wrong are infinite. 



It is given to few to add to the store of knowledge, 

 to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new 

 forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live 

 not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the 

 future of the world lies in the hands of those who are 

 able to carry the interpretation of nature a step 

 further than their predecessors. 



Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a 

 nation. 



Whatever practical people may say, this world 

 is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and 

 very often by the wildest and most hypothetical 

 ideas. It is a matter of the very greatest importance 

 that our theories of things, and even of things that 

 seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should 

 be as far as possible true, and as far as possible 

 removed from error. 



All truth, in the long run, is only common sense 

 clarified. 



You may read any quantity of books, and you may 

 be almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you 



