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1676·Cambridge, England
Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but truth is a greater friend.
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
Nikola Tesla·1937There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call "soul " or "spirit," is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the "soul" or the "spirit" ceases likewise.
Aristotle·-350 ADIn every systematic inquiry where there are first principles, or causes, or elements, knowledge and science result from acquiring knowledge of these.
Winston Churchill·1900I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
