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It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.

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We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Anthony Collins

Anthony Collins
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Born: June 21, 1676
Died: December 13, 1729 (aged 53)
Bio: Anthony Collins, was an English philosopher, and a proponent of deism.

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