"The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange."

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Source : "Newtonian Studies" by Alexandre Koyre, (p. 114), 1965.

Alexandre Koyre

#Way Quotes #Belief Quotes #Strange Quotes

“I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.”
“If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.”
“The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.”
“Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led to some things that I never wanted it to lead to, person as a sort of psychological miasma. I started to get wrapped up in self, and then, for the first time, self did become an autobiographical self.”

Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.
“You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.”
“God wants us to grow and achieve our potential.”
“A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.”
“I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.”

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