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Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire?

There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the wa...

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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...

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There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he percei...

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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour...

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...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who i...

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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

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Thomas JeffersonWritings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which o...

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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great har...

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William Kingdon CliffordThe Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of t...

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Adolphe QueteletTreatise on Man & the Development of His Faculties

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily co...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, o...

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Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master sai...

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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a mili...

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which i...

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