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Howard W. Sams proves in his Winston Niles Rumfoord, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Roger's Bacon • The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius
A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for thos
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“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” —Plato
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that others less esteemed were really wiser and better.
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
The Marginalian • Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
Surely, said I, my fate is without example. The phrenzy which is charged upon my brother, must belong to myself.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
How shall I detail the means which rendered the secrecy of thy purposes unfathomable?
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
“The best and the greatest number of authors have asserted that philosophy consists of three parts: the moral, the natural, and the rational. The first puts the soul in order. The second thoroughly examines the natural order of things. The third inquires into the proper meaning of words, and their arrangements and proofs which keep falsehoods from
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