Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Zum Autor"Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years."
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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion."
"A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith. The moment his mere reason moves, it moves in the old circular rut; he will go round and round his logical circle."
"Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority."