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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which… — Albert Einstein
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists,… — Charles Babbage
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that. — Alan Redpath
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. — Richard Dawkins
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being… — Alexander Hamilton
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,… — George Washington
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… — Thomas Jefferson
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself… — Ian Botham
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a… — Henri Matisse
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand… — Richard Dawkins
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three… — Robert A. Heinlein
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a… — Agnes Martin
I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less… — Ralph Bunche
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of… — Charles Darwin

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