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But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

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Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars m...more

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Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

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I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies utteri...more