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"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."
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"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."

"The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite."

"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man."

"Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you."

"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."

"The battered woman-for she wore a skirt-with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love-love which has lasted a million years, she sang, love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death's enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over."

"How old are you?""Ten," answered Tangle."You don't look like it," said the lady."How old are you, please?" returned Tangle."Thousands of years old," answered the lady."You don't look like it," said Tangle."Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!"
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"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."


"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."


"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."


"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."


"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
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