"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
"Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument."
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Source: Pleasures of Hope pt. 1, l. 7 (1799).
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