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"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
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"Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all beneficial, God would use it really to bring one right back to Truth, as countless 'inventions' have brought men to discovery."

"Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin."

"From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me."

"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
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"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."

"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
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