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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason ... is like administering medicines to the dead." — Thomas Paine, 'The American Crisis' (1778).
"The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. One must not think then that the old-fashioned theories have been sterile and vain." — Henri Poincaré
"...what is man in the midst of nature? A nothing in comparison with the infinite…
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