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Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict…
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending…
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised…
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Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
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I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations…
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As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without…
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In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see…
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Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes…
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How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?
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Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in…
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Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of…
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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is…
— Charles Darwin
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder…
— A. E. Housman
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The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
— John Jay Chapman
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we…
— Wyndham Lewis
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending…
— John William Draper
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages…
— Victor Hugo
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Human intellect is incurably abstract.
— C.S. Lewis
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But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation,…
— Pope Pius XII
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'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
— Emma Goldman
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He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any…
— Anandamayi Ma
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Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them…
— Mortimer Adler
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