"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.”
“I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.”
“Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe”

Source : "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature" by Paul Dirac, blogs.scientificamerican.com. June 25, 2010.
“People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; itâ€™s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.”
“He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.”
“Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.”

Source : "Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy". Book by Patricia Churchland, 2002.
“The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.”

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