The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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