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“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”

Mind Children Sometimes Light Law Dark Darkness Sun Imagine Aspect Blind Terror Rays Laws Of Nature

Author:Lucretius

“He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.”

Body Law Natural Dark Ignorant Conception Natural Things Bodies In Motion

Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

“In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.”

Knows Matter Facts Law Universe Energy Term Dark Four Percent And Love Physics Astonishing Stunning Laws Of Physics Dark Matter Dark Energy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.”

Different Law Dark Known Four Divine Theory Ancient Prophet Regions Providence Enlightening Divine Providence

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.”

Knows Men Want Giving Kind May Light Law Lying Dark Clear Fields Hot Wine Tongue Ice Wet Jungle Unfamiliar

Book:Stories from the War (Annotated Edition)

Source: Stories from the War (Annotated Edition)

“What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'”