"The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

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“If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.”

Source : "The Heretic". Play by Morris West, 1968.
“Death is better than disease.”
“History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.”
“In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.”
“Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.”
“Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?”

Source : FaceBook post by Ras Kass from May 03, 2011
“That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England”
“Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.”

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