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“Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.”

Men Giving Desire Understanding Attitude Atheism Economic Conditions Materials Civilization Accounts Importance Independent Positive Atheism Primaries Things Change Interference Economic Systems

Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.”

May Certain Results Existence Taken Influence Produce Higher Accounts Importance Finite Magnitude

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.”

Men Giving Government Desire Share Accounts Importance Management Affair Public Affairs

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.”

Men Science Names Behinds History Hard Work Pages Accounts Importance Shining Superiors

Author:Georges Cuvier

“I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.”

Ifs Knows Important Seems Science Humanity Mistake Accounts Importance Chemistry Mistaken

Author:Samuel Hahnemann

“The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.”

Years Important Ideas Whole Lasts Science Four Happened Accounts Importance Exciting Chinese Excitement Graduates Engineers

Author:Bill Gates

“The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.”

“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”

Knows Important Sometimes Science Forget Knowledge Know How Accounts Importance

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.”

Firsts Art Philosophy Science Order Subjects Accounts Importance

Book:The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“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

“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.”

Way Past Science Personality Essentials Accounts Importance Method Historical Historian Geology Geologist

Author:Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

“[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.”

Important Character Science Literature Stars Written Tree Rocks Accounts Importance Astronomy Utilitarian

Author:James A. Garfield

“The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated.”

Problem Science Numbers Progress Training Appreciate Accounts Importance Rate Determined Technique Analysis Rays Appreciated Investigators

Author:William Lawrence Bragg