Courage Quotes

Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.

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"Life is not a gentle process but a constant refinement through trial."
Hermann Muller
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"A scientist who fears failure has already failed."
Max Delbrück
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"Science demands both the courage to ask and the humility to listen."
Max Delbrück
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"Science advances when we have the courage to say 'I do not know.'"
Max Delbrück
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"Courage is required to challenge conventional thought"
Hugo de Vries
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"Courage means facing evidence that contradicts belief"
Hugo de Vries
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"The strength of a hypothesis lies not in its comfort, but in its testability."
Oswald Avery
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"The scientist who fears being wrong will never be right about anything truly important."
Oswald Avery
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"Progress requires that we abandon comfortable falsehoods in favor of uncomfortable truths."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Life is a continuous battle for resources and survival."
August Weismann
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"Courage is the willingness to act despite uncertainty."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Courage is found in ordinary people doing extraordinary things."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Courage is required to challenge established theories."
Richard Owen
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"The courage to change your mind is intellectual strength."
Richard Owen
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"The courage to explore unknown depths is noble."
Richard Owen
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"Courage is required to seek truth."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Courage is acting despite uncertainty."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the determination to act despite it."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Progress in knowledge requires the courage to challenge accepted ideas."
Richard Owen
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"The scientist must be prepared to revise theories when evidence demands it."
Richard Owen
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"The courage to question leads to greater understanding."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The scholar who relies only on authority has ceased to be a true scholar."
Georges Cuvier
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"Progress in science requires the courage to contradict prevailing opinion."
Georges Cuvier
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"The scientist who fears ridicule will never achieve discovery."
Georges Cuvier
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"Nature's variations teach that strength lies not in uniformity but in the courage to be different."
Hugo de Vries
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"Those who refuse to enter the struggle are already vanquished."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Dare to be true."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"It is the duty of men and women to speak uncomfortable truths."
Thomas Henry Huxley