“The geocentric system of astronomy, with its eccentrics and its epicycles, was an hypothesis utterly at variance with fact, which nevertheless did great things for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, and there's this couple lying naked in bed reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Resurrection. Do they know how to have a...”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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