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“The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.”

Book:History of Inductive Sciences

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History of Inductive Sciences

This book delves into the evolution of inductive sciences, tracing the origins and progression of inductive reasoning and its role in shaping scientific thought and discovery. more

Author

William Whewell

William Whewell was a polymath from England, born on May 24, 1794, and died on March 6, 1866. He made significant contributions to the fields of scientific philosophy, the history of science, logic, mathematics, and astronomy. more

“This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“You cannot have sex education without saying that sex is natural and that most people find it pleasurable.”

People Sex Natural Sex Education

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.”

Thinking Felt Religious Attention Sacrifice Grew Grew Up Paid Backgrounds Goats

Author:Brad Pitt

“If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.”

Ifs Long Long Time Royal Long Time Ago Royal Family

Author:John Lydon

“[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.”

I Can Matter Remember Names Sex Animal Pistols Presenter Sex Pistols Replying

Author:John Lydon

“Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.”

World Law Wonder Drink Judgment Western Selling Makers Preacher Jury Pirate Western World English Law

Author:John Millington Synge

“I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.”

Humans Remember Stars Sides Half Flower Mountain Bird Gray Converses Moors

Book:Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

Source: Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

“When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.”

Writing Said Girl House Given Shadow Let Me Aids Kitchen Staying Chinks

Book:Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays

Source: Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays

“Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.”