Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it … - Celia Green

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Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

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The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.

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