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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 powers, the expansive…

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Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict…
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending…
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised…
Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations…
As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without…
In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see…
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes…
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in…
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
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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The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman
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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
Human intellect is incurably abstract. — C.S. Lewis
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
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. — Emma Goldman
He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any… — Anandamayi Ma
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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