"I believe in deeply ordered chaos"
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"Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform."
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"The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center."
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"Great Hypocrites are the real atheists."
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"A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother."
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"Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one."
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"For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast."
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"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness."
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"The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps."
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"Man was formed for society."
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"The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom."
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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."
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"I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils."
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"There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God."
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