"Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer."

-- Victor Hugo

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“I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.”
“I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them.”

Source : Source: highlightsalongtheway.com
“What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.”
“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
“The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.”

Source : "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". Book by Geza Vermes (Introduction, p. 1), 1962.
“Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.”

Source : Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.13, Macmillan
“The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.”
“Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbageâ€™s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.”

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