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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, bu

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith

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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. – Huston Smith

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Intelligence
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. – Huston Smith

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Religion
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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Knowledge
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. – Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

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This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and were talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics. – Jerry Moran

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Im chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process. – Joshua Lederberg

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We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. – Fredrik Bajer

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. – Frederick William Robertson

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The trick is growing up without growing old. – Casey Stengel

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