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Will advance by having no opinion protected from discussion and agitation, by having the greatest possible freedom of thought, of speech, and of the press.

— Gertrude Kelly State Aid to Science (1887)

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As Leslie Stephen has demonstrated, to suppress one truth is to suppress all truth, for truth is a coherent whole.

State Aid to Science (1887)

It is always important that the position of devil’s advocate should be well filled.

State Aid to Science (1887)

It is our duty to truth to cultivate the spirit which questions all things

State Aid to Science (1887)

Responsibility is the parent of morality

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