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While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.
“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.”
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“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.”
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
“No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”
“The most important distinction, then, isn't in separating artists from scientists and doctors, but in separating formulaic thinkers from creative ones, separating those who can tolerate uncertainty from those who cannot. Art, science, and medicine trade in doubt, and in its remedy - improvisation.”
“Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.”
“In order to reason, you need a network to be able to bring in knowledge from several different areas, such as math, science, and philosophy, to reach reasonable conclusions on what it's been tasked with.”
“Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.”
“But it seems to me to be an imperfection in things of beauty, and a weakness in man, if an explanation from the shallow-side has a destructive effect. The horror which we feel for Freudian interpretations is entirely due to our own barbaric or childish naivete, which believes that there can be heights without corresponding depths, and which blinds us to the really "final" truth that, when carried to extremes, opposites meet.”