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“The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.”

World Way Giving Helping Energy Work Progress Land Conditions Hard Work Labor Tools Accounts Improvement Generous Length Wages Prosperous Prudent Beginners Surplus Labor And Capital

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.”

Believe Science Religion Atheism Scientist Accounts Proof Certainty Bigots Certainty In Life

Author:Ashley Montagu

“The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.”

Persons Important Economy Industry Performances Accounts Threat Prosperity Thirty Bullying Bully Effectiveness Organisation Serials Estimation Profitability

Author:Tim Field

“Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.”

Mind Has Beens Matter Science Natural Common Education Subjects Mankind Communication Habit Accounts Common Sense Construction Subject Matter Outrun Habits Of Mind

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924

“Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.”

“The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.”

“More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.”

World Found Creativity Changed Consequence Accounts Method Tested Ruts

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.”

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.”

“Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.”

Doe Art Said Science Accounts Flight All Time Artistic Poetry Is Masterpiece Ladders Corrections Fertile Correcting

Author:Victor Hugo

“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.”

Art Science Understanding Universal Accounts Personal Experiences

Author:Mae Jemison

“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”

Whole Science Certain Culture Social Support Health Type Development Healthy Tradition Accounts Function Structure Application Integrated Social Structure

Author:Talcott Parsons

“Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the fly swatter in my hand and shows me how to do it: grab their wrists, and whack the plastic handle over their pink baby palms. She stands in the doorway of their room until I can crack hard enough to make them scream.”

Children I Can Hard Enough Shows Hands Care Mother Rooms Taken Baby Mom Beats Daughter Accounts Handle Cracks Bullying Scream Plastic Show Me Palms Doorways Wrists Foster Children

Author:Julie Gregory

“He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.”

Giving Heart Done Age Accounts Satisfaction Latter

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.”

Men Mean Country Interest Danger He Man Accounts Refuse Civil Rights Engaged Divorced

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.”

Source: Something beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.”

Soul Ends Dream Evil Economy Accounts Assuming

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.”

Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.”

Has Beens Problem Imagination Cases Stage Design Evolution Majors Evidence Accounts Absence Transition Constructs Inability Fossils Persistent Creationism Nagging Paleontology

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.”

World May Stills Country Today Christian Christianity Taken Danger Return Becoming Hatred Accounts West Islam Graves Shakes Statesmen Menace Anti Christian World Power

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.”

World Ocean Accounts Saving Reserves Marine Savings Deposits Savings Accounts Debit

Author:Enric Sala

“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.”

Way Humans Order Three Stars Numbers Brain Millions Rich Four Accounts Add Extraordinary Billions Cells Complexity Pounds Inner Life Magnitude Liver Human Brain Neurons Milky Way

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.”

Way Children School Faces Found Cities Boys Teacher New York Color Accounts Method Fingers Your Face Bullying Witch New York City Pulling Choke Poke Compulsory Nooses Neckties Taffy

Author:Robert Klein

“We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.”

“We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.”

Long War Reality Political Military Solutions Standing Roots Accounts Iraq Population Repeats Lasting Repeating History History Repeats Itself

Author:Barbara Lee

“Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.”

Way Firsts Ideas Lasts Science Force Rocks Ignorance Accounts Dues Ignorant Appeals Electrical Rejecting Reefs Firsts And Lasts

Book:Corals and Coral Islands

Source: Corals and Coral Islands

“Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.”

Source: Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth

“At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.”

“In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.”

People Believe Problem Science Space Mistake Authority Accounts Fundamentals Errors Transparent

Author:Jesse L. Greenstein

“No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].”

Science Hope Energy Subjects Accounts Mixtures Hopes And Fears Atomic Energy

Author:Edward Victor Appleton

“Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.”

Science Vision Mystery Limits Accounts Penetrate

Book:Corals and Coral Islands

Source: Corals and Coral Islands

“The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.”

Giving Science Spirit Honest Fairs Accounts Shakes Queries

Author:Allen Wheelis

“There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.”

Has Beens Science Religion Race Attitude Magic Accounts Primitive Savages Lacking

Author:Bronislaw Malinowski

“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”

“Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.”

Littles Art Science Political Social Theory Concern Tests Accounts Bases Complicated Secure Statistics Falsehood Hypothesis Dynamics

Author:Adolphe Quetelet

“Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.”

“When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".”

Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human

“Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end that they may become partakers of the same joyful hope of a reward from God the ruler of all.”

Needs May Different Ends Faith Hate Christ Common Christianity Enemy Praying Accounts Rewards Communicate Christian Life Destroyed Hated Endeavor Joyful Rulers Tribes

Author:Justin Martyr

“People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.”

People Ifs World Giving Mean Ends Would Be Energy Born Talking Goes On Balance Accounts Favors If I Could Originality Predecessors

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.”

Ifs God Science Nations President Education Knowledge Development Labor Accounts Investment Western Nuclear Russia Thanks Faith In God Maintenance Great Power

Author:Zhores Alferov

“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”

World Way Facts Stories Form Science Literature Fiction Knowledge Practice History Knowing Fashion Objects Accounts Function Historical Narrative Appropriate Biology Organisms Discourse

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.”

Jobs Sound Hours Loses Millions Accounts Dollars Investment Islands Cents Governors Badass Romney Paychecks Bank Accounts Swiss Ira Governor Romney Cayman Islands

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.”

Ifs Science Consciousness Universal Accounts Block Application Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Brand Blanshard

“My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.”

Years Made Age Science Night Next Stars Interest Tree Accounts Excited Astronomy Nine Observation Excitement Maps Articles Yards Harvard National Geographic

Author:Dudley R. Herschbach

“Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.”

Ifs Science Courses Theory Accounts Claims Observation Elegant Contradictory Robust

Author:Halton Arp

“[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.”

World Ideas Science Causes Existence Accounts Invention Observation Engineering Engineers Conform

Author:Carl Mitcham

“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.”

Made Reason Science Existence Son Perfection Accounts Israel Prophecy

Author:Averroes

“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”

“It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.”

World I Can Science Understanding Existence Mystery Accounts Complicated Conclusion Concluding Anthropic Principle

Author:Allan Sandage

“Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.”

God Science Order Universe Discovery Built Accounts Revelations New Discoveries

Book:Science and Imagination: Selected Papers

Source: Science and Imagination: Selected Papers

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