"It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it."

-- Mary Hesse

#Christian Quotes #Biblical Quotes #Years Quotes

“Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.”
“Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!”
“The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.”
“I don't need to be enlightned. I have a killfile.”
“I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.”
“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Apr 06, 2013
“I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.”
“The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”

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