Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Topic: Thinking, Time
- Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.