If you try to make all your theories consistent, the penalty is that you might be wrong in everything - Fred Hoyle
Nature creates merit: chance allows it to operate - La Rochefoucauld
A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen - Kate Atkinson
There are masked words droning & skulking about us just now - there never were so many, owing to the spread of a shallow, blotching, blundering, infectious “information,” or rather deformation, everywhere, & to the teaching of catechisms & phrases at schools instead of human meanings – John Ruskin
An ethical decision is one where you feel uneasy whatever you decide - Raymond Tallis
The opposite of faith is not doubt. It is certainty - Unknown Jesuit priest
It's a pretty poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another - Sir Thomas More: Utopia
Quarrels would soon be over if all the faults lay on one side - LaRochefoucauld
The scientific method can be compared to washing dishes: dirty plates, dirty water, dirty cloth - &, miraculously, clean crockery (philosophy is the same without the water) - Niels Bohr
There’s a certain freedom in anonymity - Erica Wagner
Nature creates merit: chance allows it to operate - La Rochefoucauld
A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen - Kate Atkinson
There are masked words droning & skulking about us just now - there never were so many, owing to the spread of a shallow, blotching, blundering, infectious “information,” or rather deformation, everywhere, & to the teaching of catechisms & phrases at schools instead of human meanings – John Ruskin
An ethical decision is one where you feel uneasy whatever you decide - Raymond Tallis
The opposite of faith is not doubt. It is certainty - Unknown Jesuit priest
It's a pretty poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another - Sir Thomas More: Utopia
Quarrels would soon be over if all the faults lay on one side - LaRochefoucauld
The scientific method can be compared to washing dishes: dirty plates, dirty water, dirty cloth - &, miraculously, clean crockery (philosophy is the same without the water) - Niels Bohr
There’s a certain freedom in anonymity - Erica Wagner
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