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“And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.”
Source : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”
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“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”
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“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”
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“Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.”
Source : Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.22
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“It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.”
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“The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.”
Source : "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 18, 2010.
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“Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”
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“I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!”