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“Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.”

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James Allen, born on November 28, 1864, was a renowned writer from the United Kingdom. His works spanned across various fields such as philosophy, religion, and self-help, and were highly appreciated by readers. more

“All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.”

Men Firsts Children Has Beens Reason God Mother Parent Born Useless Womb Vessel Nourishment Navel Placenta

Author:Richard Cumberland

“From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.”

Way Real Self Enough God Body Seems Science Knowledge Clear Duty Creatures Discovery Essence Obvious Rational Internals Faculty Penetrate Adapted

Book:An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

“Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.”

Ifs Men Way God Science Names Path Bed Worthy

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.”

Two Science Found Grew Accounts

Author:Charles Sprague Sargent

“Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.”

Ifs Should Light Science Speak Sound Wonder Knowledge Heard Lips Faster Boss Sync

Author:Scott Adams

“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.”

“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.”

Ifs Should Trying Lasts Science Found Water Knowledge Bottom Ice Freeze Frost Skating Extending

Book:The Essential Samuel Butler

Source: The Essential Samuel Butler

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