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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.
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Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.
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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
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Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
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