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“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.”

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Author:David Hilbert

“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”

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Author:David Hume

“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.”

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Book:The Guide of the Perplexed

Source: The Guide of the Perplexed

“cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.”

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Author:Immanuel Kant