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“Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.”

Character Feelings Action Influence Effects Example Habit Exercise Accounts Constant Contact Permanent Unconscious Imitation Impressive Alterations Approximation Impressionable

Book:Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Source: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

“Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.”

Men Effects Accounts Angry Punishment Angry Man

Book:Summa Theologica, Volume 1

Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 1

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“If you sell me a car, we have perhaps made a good bargain for ourselves. But there are effects of this transaction on others, which we do not take into account. There is more pollution, the price of gas goes up, there is more congestion.”

Ifs Made Effects Car Accounts Sells Gas Pollution Bargains Transactions Congestion

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.”

Way Years Order Effects Thirds Accounts Imitation Limbs Outlines Maidens Slender Adornment Corinthians

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.”

“Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist. Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe. Dogbert: Sounds cultish.”

“The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.”

Way Trying Ideas Earth Fall Influence Effects Planets Accounts Balls Tables Western Blow Pool Leafs Galaxy Neglected Convergence Pool Table

Book:Chaos: Making a New Science

Source: Chaos: Making a New Science

“I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.”

Art Artist Effects Elements Direct Accounts Representation Day To Day Direct Effect

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.”

Company Effects Accounts Impact Mood Insidious Bank Accounts

Author:James Surowiecki

“People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.”

People Should Kind Doe Facts Order Social White Moral Effects Accounts Pointing Complacency Console Bankruptcy Wretchedness

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated”

Ifs Writing Made I Can Might Differences Known Effects Offers Benefits Letters Accounts Embrace Crumbs

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”

Differences Effects Accounts Visible Economist Foreseen

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions.”

Giving Believe God Helping Age Science Religion Belief Answers Effects Accounts Conception Purifying

Author:Nevill Francis Mott

“It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.”

Ifs Has Beens Stills War Done Science Evil Lost Millions Effects Example Ten Accounts Increase Average Length Length Of Life

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.”

People World Way Want Wells Kind Persons Interest Justice Views Principles Knowing Atheism Effects Depends Morality Truth Is Accounts Atheist Well Being Justify Dedicated Live Your Life

Author:Steven Pinker

“It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.”

Science Effects Particular Theory Accounts Curiosity Curious Branches Beneficial

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.”

Knows Reason Science Teach Effects Judging Accounts Submit Enquiry

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little as possible to impede it, and when you thoroughly comprehend that, add to it in succession the separate effects of each of the incumbering and interfering agencies.”

Firsts Littles Science Force Simple Common Cases Seeing Effects Accounts Add Common Sense Agency Interfere Maxims Succession

Author:Walter Bagehot

“The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.”

School Science Modern Effects Elements Accounts Imperfect Electricity Acquisition

Author:George Herbert

“The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.”

Science Grace Effects Concerned Accounts Composition

Book:The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. with Notes

Source: The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. with Notes

“We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.”

Humans Kind Facts Body Science Teach History Teaching Effects Intellectual Accounts Pursuit Tricks Endeavor Historic

Author:Isidor Isaac Rabi

“In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.”

Science Effects Accounts Geology

Book:Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

Source: Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate

“Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In reasoning, therefore, from appearances which are particular, care must be taken how we generalize; we should be cautious not to attribute to nature, laws which may perhaps be only of our own invention.”

Source: Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).

“If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Mean Body Race Too Much Progress Effects Tears Balance Training Opposites Accounts Your Body Session Deposits Personal Best

Author:Grete Waitz

“I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.”