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Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.: William Ockham (1300 - 1349)
No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.: W. Emerson Wright
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.: Hypatia of Alexandria (370 AD - 415 AD)
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.: Hypatia of Alexandria (370 AD - 415 AD)
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.: Joseph Priestley
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He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797), Letter to Sir David Dalrymple, 1770
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.: Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472), On Painting
Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), Howards End

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