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Famous George Iles Quotes
“Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.”
“Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution”
“Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.”
“Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.”
“Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.”
“Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.”
“No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.”
“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”
“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”
“Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.”
“Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.”