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PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I sit with Sha...
W.E.B. DU BOIS Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, RALPH WALDO EMERSON The genius of Lapla...
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Not like Homer would I...
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BEN JONSON [As a young teenager] ERIC TEMPLE BELL He had all the attributes...
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ROBERT ANTON WILSON When {Born and EDWARD UHLER CONDON Alfvén dismiss...
HELGE KRAGH When I visited JOSEPH LEWIS Shocked? I consider Bob...
WALT WHITMAN He shrank from even the s...
MONCURE D. CONWAY He had all the a...
THOMAS A. EDISON Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proo...
JESSE VENTURA Our friend Dirac ha...
WOLFGANG ERNST PAULI One night while KLIPH NESTEROFF Accordingly, we find Eu...
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON Paine was a grand fe...
WALT WHITMAN The future historian will rank ELIZABETH CADY STANTON His true monument lies...
JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Plato...
THOMAS JEFFERSON As a matter of fact, with all HERMAN E. KITTREDGE Paine suffered then,...
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KEN JENNINGS I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as GALILEO GALILEI CLARENCE DARROW Jack Paar t...
KLIPH NESTEROFF No institution of learning of JOSEPH LEWIS He is a type of our best ...
WALT WHITMAN I have always regarded P...
THOMAS A. EDISON We hold these truths to be self-evident.
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LARRY HANNANT One of the bravest, grandest CLARENCE DARROW My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG I never tire of reading ABRAHAM LINCOLN Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for MARK TWAIN This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has...
ALBERT EINSTEIN When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existence...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dod...
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BENJAMIN JOWETT I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to pa...
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THOMAS CLIO RICKMAN With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fou...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking a...
CHINA MIéVILLE In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Could I but acquaint the world with JOSEPH LEWIS The assumption that D...
TIMOTHY MORTON My criticism of Hegel...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Burlesque had stock routines and it was no big deal if one comic had the same act as another. But no...
KLIPH NESTEROFF He was of the opinion... th...
GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of LUTHER BURBANK R...
CHARLES S. THOMAS Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class syste...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What Pascal overlo...
WALTER KAUFMANN There is nothing more notable in MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Conquests will come and go but NAPOLéON BONAPARTE I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times...
JOHN ADAMS After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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