Quote by George Eliot
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a char

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Illusion
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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great
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Science is but an image of the truth. – Francis Bacon

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My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. – Michael Sheen

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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. – John Carmack

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First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better. – Martin Feldstein

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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. – Billy Connolly

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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. – Paul Getty

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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. – Anne Lamott

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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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