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Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.

In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.

I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.

I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.

To burn oil!.. You can fuel with money as well.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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