"Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health."

-- Emily Blackwell

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“This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at rest shows that there must be something theoretically wrong with Copernicanism, or the intuition that time is moving shows that there is something theoretically wrong with the block universe 'B series' view of change.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.”
“[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.”
“I canâ€™t see, unless the weather changes, the conditions changing dramatically.”
“The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.”

Source : Marva J. Dawn (2006). “The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath Way of Life for Those Who Serve God, the Church, and the World”, p.91, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.”
“No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.”

Source : Marsden Gibson, Charles Bradlaugh (1889*). “Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne”
“The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.”

Source : Of the Laws of Chance Preface

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