"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
-E. B. White
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
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"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."
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"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."
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"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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