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We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.


Christopher Hitchens


#atheism #enlightenment #galileo #geocentricism #god

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.


Cyril Connolly


#magic #rationality #science #science

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.


Reverend B. Smith


#atheist #bodyguard #caesar #christian #divine

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.


Stephen King


#dress-up #embarrassing #style #vocabulary #writing

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)


Edward Conze


#words #scripture

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.


Mother Teresa


#eat #everybody #forgotten #greater #hunger

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.


Alan Wilson Watts


#persistence

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.


Peter F. Drucker


#persistence #planning #resolve #persistence

They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence


John Di Lemme


#key #persistence #power #struggle #persistence

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.


Ogwo David Emenike


#persistence #waiting #persistence






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