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- The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
- People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
- We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
- The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
- And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.