"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"

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“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.”

“Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.”

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“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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"Five years after Sir Syed’s death in 1898, his successor, Viqar-ul-Mulk, wrote a letter to The Pioneer of Lucknow. He said: “We start with the firm conviction and seek to implant it in the mind of eve…"

— Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh

Mathematics1841–1917

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"Even God wouldn’t get a grant today because somebody on the committee would say, oh those were very interesting experiments , but they’ve never been repeated. And then someone else would say, yes and …"

— Sydney Brenner

Science1927–2019

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"Mr. Holker made many inquiries yesterday, respecting the temper and disposition of our army. He seemed desirous to know, whether peace, upon a plan of independence agreeable to the state of the allian…"

— Nathanael Greene

Military1742–1786

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"The doctor of speech, language pathology at Stanford... measured people who had laryngectomies... She found between 2 months and 2 years, their noses were completely blocked."

— James Nestor (writer)

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