"Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation."

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Source : William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History: In Two Volumes”, p.443

William Whewell

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“Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.”
“And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.”
“Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.214, Laurel Leaf
“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics
“This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.”
“I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.”
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
“The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.”

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