"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."

Idea, Knowledge, Beliefs, Books

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"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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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

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"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."

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"And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity."

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"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."

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"The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them."

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"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."

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