Quotes
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Poison
‘Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.‘― Adam Smith
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Center of knowledge
‘Surely you mistake Cambridge. Wee are situated in as dark a corner of ye land (in terms of knowledge of world affairs) as can be well desired.‘― Roger Cotes
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Logical Proof
‘It is useless, my son. I have read Aristotle through twice and have found nothing about spots on the Sun. There are no spots on the Sun. They arise either from imperfections of your telescope or from defects in your eyes.‘― 17th century Jesuit professor
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Einstein on Israel
‘The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people.‘― Albert Einstein
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America
‘God’s own country becomes stranger and stranger, but somehow they manage to return to normality. Everything, even lunacy, is mass produced here. But everything goes out of fashion very quickly.‘― Albert Einstein