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Light Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.
- Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.
- It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I…
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- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann