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“A schooner is a sailing vessel with two or more masts having fore and aft rigging. Usually the foremast of a schooner is shorter than the mainmast. These ships were first designed and used in Holland during the 16th or 17th century, however schooners became popular and most frequently used along the coast of New England. They were known for their ease of handling and being smaller were soon adopted for use as coastwise cargo vessels and fishing boats. Because of their speed and agility, they were also popular and used by pirates in the Caribbean. Schooners were reasonably maneuverable and could be handled by a smaller crew than most sailing ships. Because of their size, they usually drew less water than most sailing ships, thus allowing them to sail in relatively shallow water while still carrying enough cannons to present a threat to most merchant vessels prior to the 20th century.
Schooners with three masts were first introduced around 1800. In the late 19th century, additional masts were added and some schooners were built with as many as six masts. The only seven-masted schooner, the ill-fated steel-hulled Thomas W. Lawson was built in 1902. The larger schooners only caught on towards the end of the days of sail ships but never replaced the larger square riggers and clipper ships that remained more popular as deep sea cargo vessels.”
“A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be the first to say, it's can't help you to deal with the stress and disappointment and terror that comes with a diagnosis, and nor can it help you to die well, like Socrates, kindly, not railing against faith, but in possession of your own death. For these imponderable questions people have turned to mythos.”
“A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.”
“A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.”
Source: Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society
“A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.”
Source: Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin
“A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.”
“A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.”
“A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.”
“A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.”
“A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.”
“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.”
Source: Aims of Education
“A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.”
“A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .”
Source: Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature
“A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.”
“A scientific fact has no value to me unless it can be implemented to improve human condition.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
Source: Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858
“A scientific mindset accepts the truth as a credo.”
“A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps:
1. One decides the objective.
2. One considers the method.
3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.”
“A scientific picture of the world would be incomplete without an account of our own place in it.”
Source: Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe
“A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.”
“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
“A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.”
Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers
“A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.”
“A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.”
“A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.”
“A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.”
“A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.”
Source: The Leaf Flute - A Marridon Novella
“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”
Source: The Enormous Egg
“A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.”
“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”
“A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.”
“A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.”
“A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.”
“A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.”
“A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.”
Source: The Philosophy of Physics
“A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.”
“A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.”
“A scientist is more doubtful of his theories than the science teacher who teaches those theories. A Guru is more doubtful of his words than his followers because he knows that everything except silence is a corruption of truth.”
“A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.”
“A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.”
“A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to serve humans. A preacher is not to preach humans, but to serve humans. Any individual who possesses higher intellect than the general population, is meant to be at the forefront of service to humanity.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?”
“A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.”
“A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.”
“A scientist may be able to measure coolness in terms of the temperature on registered on a thermometer; but no matter how accurate that measurement is, it still cannot capture the delight of a summer breeze.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.”