“The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.” LittlesBookFormUnderstandingReligiousWrittenFieldsSceneElementsMajorsUniqueAspectAccountsTablesPhotographLandscapeContributionMapsLastingChicagoUrbanSurveysOverlookedMetropolisAmerican Landscape Author:Peter Haggett
“I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.” IfsLooksMadeStatesDesireTheoryLogicAccountsPressesValuableRememberedContributionLook UpPreparingProbabilityHereafter Author:George Boole
“The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.” MayLittlesRealGivenInterestingCommonKnownAccountsContributionVividArabiaDay Life Author:Philip Khuri Hitti
“The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.” PeopleIfsWayYearsAsksNationsCompanySupportHellMembersAccountsDollarsChinaCampaignsDebateCorporateContributionDisgustingTradingBank AccountsFloodingAllureLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Mark Shields
“The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.” IfsHumansDoneEyeChristianLife IsDiesInfluenceDivineVictoryConflictAccountsFinalsDeedsIncomeHuman LifeWelfareHis EyesContributionMidstBehalfOverflowDeeds Done Author:William Jennings Bryan
“In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.” MenWorldBelieveImportantCharacterSuccessScienceI BelieveQualitySupportProgressBrotherBalanceAccountsWingsSimplicityIntellectSensesLiftsContributionMutualBalancedModestyHawksKittiesPioneeringScientific ProgressSucessWright BrothersMutual Support Author:Charles Lindbergh
“The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both-by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.” YearsFirstsMadeTwoSometimesDoneFactsUseScienceProcessWalksProgressFeetFieldsTheoryFindingsAccountsRelationPhysicsExperimentsContributionPrizePushingHonourTestingTheoreticalNobelNobel PrizeUnendingAlterationsPushing It Author:Robert Andrews Millikan
“There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.” MadeScienceFoundInterestingHonorFindingsHighestAccountsFundamentalsStructureRewardsContributionImperfectionVery InterestingNewtonIsaac Author:Carl Sagan
“In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.” WarRealProblemRealityScienceSocialSecuritySolutionsAccountsMethodContributionExtensionsAvoidanceScientific MethodSocial Science Author:Edward Condon
“'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science.” MenMadeWaterTakenComputerAccountsErrorsContributionGlobal WarmingGasIgnoredEquationsJunkCalculationsEmissionsGreenhousesSimulationGreenhouse Gases Author:Michael Myers