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Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry book-keeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

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It is fitting that her [Egypt's] most enduring works remain the pyramids. They are the monuments to the majesty of her ideal, and to its basic absurdity; to the promise of her beginning, and to its curse.

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Although science is no doubt the Jehovah of the modern world, there is considerable doubt about the glory of its handiwork.

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Men of science, men given to "realism," are likely to make a clean sweep of old interests and sentiments as so much rubbish. They regard religion as superstition, metaphysics as moonshine, art as primitive pastime, and all ritual as monkey-business.

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It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

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To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

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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

Herbert J. Muller

Herbert J. Muller

Born: 1905
Died: 1980 (aged 75)
Bio: Herbert J. Muller was an American historian, academic, government official and author. He was educated at Cornell University.

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