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Quote by Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable convent

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. – Denis Diderot

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Assumptions
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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. – Denis Diderot

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Health
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. – Werner Heisenberg

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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. – Albert Einstein

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If you dont know how to die, dont worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you dont bother your head about it. – Michel de Montaigne

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I made my money by selling too soon. – Bernard Baruch

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