"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

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Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

Asa Gray

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Order Quotes

“Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.”
“I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded.”
“Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world.”
“To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone,”
“There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.”
“Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.
“Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.”
“Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.”

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