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As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly… — Charles Spurgeon
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word. — Jerry Bridges
Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others… — J C Ryle
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it,… — Benjamin Peirce
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
Two truths cannot contradict one another. — Galileo Galilei
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the… — Gaston Bachelard
Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on… — Isaac Newton
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed… — Kofi Annan
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and… — Henry David Thoreau
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. — Immanuel Kant
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be… — Richard Dawkins
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. — Thomas Huxley
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can… — Kurt GÃ¶del
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… — Roger Bacon

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