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• We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

  William Whewell

  Names, Needs, Use

  The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences vol. 1 (1840). Whewell coined scientist at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the early 1830s.

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• All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Effectiveness, Color, Individuality

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• The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Stories, Creation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Generosity, Grace, Showers

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