“Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.” WorldSoulDreamLawScienceHumanityGrowthDevelopmentAccountsPressureWideProphetic Book:Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma Source: Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma
“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.” MayMeanDoeEndsBodyScienceCertainKnowledgeProgressDevelopmentAccountsIntuitionIntellectPoeticEndeavorIdleCertain Knowledge Author:Max Planck
“Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.” HumansIndividualLanguageGivenStudyDevelopmentOrdinaryTasksAccountsIndependentMethodPhysicsObjectivesJudgementHuman ExperienceSubjectiveHuman Language Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.” ThinkingWrittenRevolutionDevelopmentEvolutionShadowAccountsConstitutionStressBritishStabilityStrifeMonarchyBritish HistoryBritish Constitution Author:David Cannadine
“I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.” BelieveBodyI BelieveExistenceBrainWonderfulMysteryConditionsPossibilityDevelopmentConsciousAccountsFundamentalsIncludingInheritanceUnimaginableTranscending Author:John Eccles
“Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.” ThinkingShouldLongUseGoalTermNaturalCompanyHeardInfluenceDevelopmentAccountsIncludingLong TermAccountingIntegratingSustainable DevelopmentAccountants Author:Kofi Annan