“In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.” WarWholeThreeMoralMaterialsAccountsFactorsRelativeQuarters Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.” PeopleIfsSpiritDifferencesToo MuchRiskAccountsImpactBurdenBoardsRelativeBureaucracyEntrepreneurialGovernment BureaucracyEntrepreneurial SpiritImpact On Society Author:Samuel J. Palmisano
“There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.” PastOrderFoundWaterRecordsImagineTreeEvolutionRootsAccountsPlantSpeciesLeavingApplesRacingRelativePrimitiveFloodOrangeDinosaursGeologyMammalsSneakersNikeMagnoliasApples And OrangesOrange Trees Author:Frank Zindler
“A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.” CharacterValuesSocialKnowledgeImpossibleModernSubjectsPositionTheoryAccountsAbsolutesHistoricalAssumptionRelativeSpheresAbsolute TruthTheory Of KnowledgeHistorical Knowledge Author:Karl Mannheim
“Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.” JusticePositionDiversityAccountsAbsolutesSocial JusticeRelativeObserversMeasurement Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.” MindMayFactsFeelingsScienceHabitJudgmentAccountsFunctionRecognitionCharacteristicsSignificanceRelativeSequenceClassificationFrame Of MindPersonal Feelings Book:The Grammar of Science Source: The Grammar of Science
“The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task. One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is beyond expression in sounding the abyss of science and the secrets of the infinite mind.” FeelsMindPlayCharacterScienceJoyLyingFoundSecretExpressionTasksAccountsInfiniteOneselfPursuitContactRelativeAbyssFascinationAttainmentPower Of The Mind Author:Florence Bascom