Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
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