"In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief"

-- Walter Lippmann

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“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
“Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.”

Source : "The aim and structure of physical theory". Book by Pierre Duhem, translated by Philip P. Wiener, p. 10, 1991.
“You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.”
“How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.”
“Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.12
“If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.”
“I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.”
“It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.”

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