"Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day."

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Robert Boyle

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“To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.”

Source : "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.
“I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.”
“Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”

Source : Thomas Cooper (1829). “Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...”, p.375
“... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.13
“Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.”
“A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.”
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?”

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