In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.
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You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him to find it within himself.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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