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William Edward Hartpole Lecky

"The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin."

-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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“I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus ...”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.”
“Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.”
“I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.”
“Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand.”
“Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.”
“I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.”

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