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The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed…

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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…

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A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an… — Max Perutz
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better. — John Mason Brown
No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us. — Shane Claiborne
The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only… — David Berlinski
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations… — James Weldon Johnson
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story… — Mary Augusta Ward
Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched. — Olive Schreiner
A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen… — Frederick Lenz
Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become… — Justine Musk
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to… — Kiefer Sutherland
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this:… — Rene Daumal
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future? — Alan Lightman

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