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“I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.”
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“Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.”
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“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.”
Source : Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”
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“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
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“For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.”
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“Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.”
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“Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.”
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“Conscience without judgment is superstition.”
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“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”
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“One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.”
Source : "The Decline and Fall of Science". Book by Celia Green, 1976.
