A Quotes
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“All Satan's Apples Have Worms. I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms.”
“All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.”
Source: The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee
“All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.”
Source: The Indian States' Problem
“ALL SAY I AM SWEET,
SINCE I NEVER CHEAT,
I DO THINGS NEAT,
WHETHER IT IS TO EAT,
FOR WELL-WISHERS I HAVE A TREAT,
TODAY I STAND ON MY FEET.”
“All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.”
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
“All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.”
Source: Roughing It
“All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.”
Source: Possession
“All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.”
“All schooboys had been to the stores and had noticed the long queues, and knew that the most used word in the Soviet lexicon was "shortage.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.”
Source: Civil Wars
“All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.”
“All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.”
“All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.”
“All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.”
Source: Nature
“All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage
“All science is an attempt to cover with explanatory devices-and thereby to obscure-the vast darkness of the subject. It is a game in which the scientist uses his explanatory principles according to certain rules to see if these principles can be stretched to cover the vast darkness. But the rules of the stretching are rigorous, and the purpose of the whole operation is really to discover what parts of the darkness still remain, uncovered by explanation.
But this game has also a deeper, more philosophic purpose: to learn something about the very nature of explanation, to make clear some part of that most obscure matter-the process of knowing.
(Epilogue, 1958)”
Source: Naven, Second Edition
“All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.”
Source: The Peter prescription: how to be creative, confident & competent
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
“All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.”
Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences
“All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.”
“All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.”
Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history
“All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.”
“All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.”
Source: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)
“All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.”
Source: The Ethics of Competition
“All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“All science requires mathematics.”
“All science requires mathematics.
[Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]”
“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.”
“All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.”
“All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.”
Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.”
“All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place.”
Source: The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon
“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”
Source: Leonardo's Notebooks
“All sciences have their mysteries and at certain points the apparently most obvious theory will be found in contradiction with experience. Politics, for example, offers several proofs of this truth. In theory, is anything more absurd than hereditary monarchy? We judge it by experience, but if government had never been heard of and we had to choose one, whoever would deliberate between hereditary and elective monarchy would be taken for a fool. Yet we know by experience that the first is, all things considered, the best that can be imagined, while the second is the worst. What arguments could not be amassed to establish that sovereignty comes from the people? However they all amount to nothing. Sovereignty is always taken, never given, and a second more profound theory subsequently discovers why this must be so. Who would not say the best political constitution is that which has been debated and drafted by statesmen perfectly acquainted with the national character, and who have foreseen every circumstance? Nevertheless nothing is more false. The best constituted people is the one that has the fewest written constitutional laws, and every written constitution is WORTHLESS.”
Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
“All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.”
“All scientific and philosophical ideas about the nature of our existence claim that our experience of life is different to the underlying reality. We are all living in an illusion to some degree. The choice for you is to determine how deep the illusion might go.”
Source: Our Existence Part 1: The Nature and Origin of Physical Reality
“All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.”
Source: Studies in animal and human behaviour
“All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.”
“All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.”
“All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat.”
“All scientific theories are required to be “falsifiable” and that ipso facto means that none can be true since Truth, by definition, is unfalsifiable. Equally, all scientific theories are required to be verifiable, but nothing can ever definitively verify any scientific theory, and Truth is not in any case something that requires any synthetic a posteriori verification, only analytic a priori proof – the complete opposite!
Science is a pragmatic, instrumental subject. It’s the science of appearances, not the science of ultimate reality, of things as they are in themselves, beyond appearance. Only ontological mathematics can address that noumenal, hidden reality. Science is undeniably good at producing theories that allow us to manipulate the “seen world”, but it’s just as bad at producing theories that allow us to manipulate the “unseen world” – which is the religious world in which humanity has always been most interested.”
Source: The Sam Harris Delusion
“All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.”
“All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?”
“All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.”
“All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.”