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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our… — John Owen
Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they… — Protagoras
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds… — James Clerk Maxwell
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must… — Freeman Dyson
I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them:… — Walt Whitman
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on… — Martin Rees
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what… — Saint Augustine
"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on… — Orson Pratt
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. — Henry David Thoreau
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson
He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering… — Walter Russell
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. — Robert Frost
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the… — Ayn Rand
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is… — Arthur Miller
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that… — Al Gore
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of… — James Jeans
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence.… — Louis Agassiz
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi

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