"The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal."

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Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.41

William Winwood Reade

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“World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”
“I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.”

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“Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.”
“This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.”
“I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.”
“It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.”

Source : "Paul Scofield: Oscar-winning actor whose phenomenal range was unmatched in his generation" by Alan Strachan, www.independent.co.uk. March 21, 2008.
“Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself”
“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.”

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