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“The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.”
Source : Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.68, Transaction Publishers
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“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”
Source : Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
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“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”
Source : John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.85, InterVarsity Press
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“The price of purity is purists.”
Source : Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”
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“It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.”
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“You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.”
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“I consider myself gay because at the end of the night, that's who I want to cuddle with. But when I go out, I go to straight clubs.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.