"Truth is what your contemporaries let you get…" — Richard Rorty

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• I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity… — David Bowie
• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help… — Alan Valentine
• Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise… — Joseph Henry
• If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did… — Pope Benedict XVI
• For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel… — Pope Benedict XVI
• May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ… — Pope Benedict XVI
• People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts… — Fritz Haber
• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society… — Albert Hofmann
• In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries… — Marjory Stephenson

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