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It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and…

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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

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[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is… — Saint Augustine
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not… — Mary Parker Follett
There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one… — Mordecai Ham
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets — Emmanuel Mounier
As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us. — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy… — Thomas Merton
Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended… — St. Jerome
Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since… — John Calvin
A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult. — Charles Spurgeon
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because… — Joel Salatin

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