Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
Herbert SpencerThe idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert SpencerThe child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Herbert SpencerNo physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.
Herbert Spencer