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Quote by John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs

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alone
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

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A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. – Author Unknown

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

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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. – Karl Friedrich Gauss

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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadows speed. – Howard Nemerov

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I know for works for me – those wonderful sad love songs. – Toni Braxton

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There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. – Jim Fiebig

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