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The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates…
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…
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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all…
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed…
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,…
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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of…
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that…
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation…
— George Harrison
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Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof…
— Ronald Reagan
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If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.
— George Harrison
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
— D. Elton Trueblood
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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all…
— Thomas Reid
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
— Ashley Montagu
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