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There is no worse calamity for science and for scholarship than those intruders who are foreign to them. They are ignorant and yet think they know; they ruin everything whilst convinced they are fixing all.

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There are mobile objects and stationary objects, but there is neither motion nor staticness.

If you attended (a study session) strictly adopt three attitudes; there is no fourth.

Compare yourself, for wealth, status and health to those lower than you. For faith, science, and virtue, compare yourself to those who are higher than you.

Whosoever rises above things of this world, in front of which you kneel is much stronger than you.

The Earth is spherical despite what is popularly believed … the proof is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth.

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