“A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.” ChildrenSchoolEssentialsConnectionsAccountsCompetitionExcellencePhonesSpeedCellsMinoritiesAcademicPublic SchoolImperativesCell PhoneRestoringIpadsNetflixHigh SpeedAcademic Excellence Author:Michelle Malkin
“Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.” SeaPlanetsEssentialsSurvivalAccountsBlueEngagingTerrificHistory Of ScienceBlue Planet Author:David Helvarg
“When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.” GovernmentSocialCuttingInvolvedCostEssentialsAccountsSpendingExpendituresGovernment Spending Author:Raghuram Rajan
“The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.” FactsSeemsScienceNatureNaturalEssentialsCapableDrawsAccountsMathematicsObservationMathematical Author:James Jeans
“Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.” IfsMenKindScienceFallExistenceConditionsPureEssentialsStandardsAccountsCoreTragicRootedCaricaturesDiseased Book:On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization Source: On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization
“But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.” MenMindHumansPhilosophyWholeScienceExpressionEssentialsLogicAccountsPhilosophicalFinalsHuman MindPlatoFrameworkScottishPermanenceCatechismPlato And Aristotle Author:George Herbert
“Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.” WorldHas BeensCharacterScienceResultsBalanceDemandEssentialsStandardsAccountsPopulationConclusionUpsetEmphasisVigorWorld Population Author:Charles Lindbergh
“Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.” IfsWould BeScienceChoicesSportsDisciplineEssentialsIntellectualAccountsCompetitionIntellectDefinedWelfareScholarRuinedNomadSpecialtyWithdrawing Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.” ProblemSeemsScienceEssentialsAccountsIntellectAbsurdParadoxical Author:Fritjof Capra
“As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality of the geologist of essential importance in the way he analyzes the past.” WayPastSciencePersonalityEssentialsAccountsImportanceMethodHistoricalHistorianGeologyGeologist Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
“No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.” WorldWayNeedsProblemGovernmentForceInterestChanceLeaderDemocracyConditionsEssentialsAuthorityMassEnlightenmentAccountsMethodImprovementDebateDiscussionExpertsPersuasionSpecialistsOligarchyAdministrative Book:The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry Source: The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry