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Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified… — James Bryant Conant
It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you. — John Owen
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which… — Baruch Spinoza
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought… — Bertrand Russell
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell. — Charles Spurgeon
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely… — Adolf Hitler
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed… — Dan Barker
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of… — Thomas Jefferson
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely… — C.S. Lewis
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,… — Frederick Soddy
At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from… — Tony Blair
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? — Dan Barker

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