Famous quotes containing the words free, spirit and/or heresy:
“Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect.”
—Gerald Branan (1894–1987)
“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)