"There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth."

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Paul Broca

#Progress Quotes #Interest Quotes #Respectable Quotes

“It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.”
“There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.”
“Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.”
“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.”
“If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.”

Source : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
“Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.”
“Because there wasnâ€™t enough time to play 54”
“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1843). “The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications”, p.7

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