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“GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.”

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Author:Jordan Ellenberg

“Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.”

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Book:1913 America Between Two Worlds

Source: 1913 America Between Two Worlds

“The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.”

“'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'”

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Author:George Herbert

“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”

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Author:Charles Darwin