Quote #18

'But my liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidence?'

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  3. 'My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike to ever mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way.'
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  5. 'I cannot accept that the products of the mind are subject-matter for belief.'
  6. 'Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely nume…
  7. 'Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing, that the suspicion comes to me that it may be only a myth after all.'
  8. 'The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.'

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