"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

God, Intellect, Reason, Sense

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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

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David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."

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

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"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

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"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."

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