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«There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
dogma, Free Inquiry, inquiry, scientist
«The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| Keywords:
Blind Faith, discouraging, expedient, Expedients, inquiry, perpetuation, rational, secures, unconscious
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, domain, domains, evolution, examining, forcing, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, inquiry, straitjacket
«I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light»
«Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Love,
Promise
| Keywords:
creed, excludes, Free Inquiry, inquiry, vow
«I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
admit, bow, bowing, bow out, inquiries, inquiry, intolerance, opinions, religious, religious act, religious intolerance, shrine, take a bow
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affords, crowded, inquiry, laborious, meditations, public libraries, public library, The C, volumes
«Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
agents, effectual, error, free agent, Free agents, Free Inquiry, inquiries, inquiry, The Agent
«I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of only one God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in»
«The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.»
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