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"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

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"So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do."

"Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart."

"If Papists can be supposed to be as good subjects as others, they may be equally tolerated... If all subjects should be equally countenanced, & imployd by the Prince. the Papist[s] have an equall title."

"I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands."

"Any attempt to understand the motivation of these occurrences is blocked by our own anthropomorphism. Where there are no men, there cannot be motives accessible to men."

"The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful."

"Polish translations of letters written by Copernicus in Latin or German"

"And if people think that the Congress and the President actually have a hand on this, they're gravely mistaken. They do not. This is where we get into the structure of secrecy."

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🇫🇷Alessandro Cagliostro

Medicine

1743–1795

"Heaven forgets, or tolerates—waiting for you to reform"

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🇺🇸Roger Wolcott Sperry

Science

1913–1994

"Tributes to Sperry in Humankind Advancing, Vol.5, No.1"

"In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning."

"...a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature."

"Big Tech is censoring Experts and suppressing the CURE. I will not be silenced."

"The EU is not a prison — nobody has to stay, but it’s also a home and we’re not going to kick anybody out either."

"The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world."

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free."

"I believe that a healthy society should not have only one voice."

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

"I hope this outbreak or this event may be over in something like April ."

"The Story of San Michele at Google Books"

"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."

"The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree."

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🇫🇷Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1709–1751

"I reduce to two the systems of philosophy which deal with man's soul. The first and older system is materialism; the second is spiritualism."

"a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian."

"When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach."

"Why is Killing Abortionists Like George Tiller So Wrong?"

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🇫🇷Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Medicine

1787–1872

"All comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make collections is to count."

"When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation."

"There was no middle state. A man must be of the highest rank or live miserably."

"Many times in history, people have voted our people they didn't want and ended up with people they didn't need. But let me assure you that you have not voted out one bad government only to end up with another."

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