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“Indifference, lukewarmness, and neutrality are always attached to failure.”

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John Landis Mason, born in 1832, was an accomplished tinsmith whose career was marked by a deep passion for the craft and exceptional skill. His work had a profound impact on the field. more

“In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.”

Way Kind Real Reality Certain Forever Acquire Denied Introducing Hypothesis Certain Knowledge

Author:James Jeans

“Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.”

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Book:Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective

Source: Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective

“[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.”

Important Shows Today Law Constitution International International Law

Author:Antonin Scalia

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