“The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.” ViewsCreationDevelopmentConceptsRateReactionsRationalDependentChemicalsChemical Reactions Author:Wilhelm Ostwald
“It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.” IfsTryingProcessImpossibleEconomicDevelopmentUnderstoodHistoricalRationalAwkwardPhasesSchemesContinuingEconomic Systems Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson
“No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.” PlayPoliticalPurposeNationsSocialNaturalEconomicDevelopmentLaborPaidRationalCorporationsHatsMarchSocial LifeGeeseTinScoundrelsBabblingVigilante Author:John L. Lewis
“Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.” MenMindInspirationHumanitySocialPleasureCommonFieldsDutyDevelopmentCivilizationActivityConversationApproachIntelligentDebtRationalEnjoymentLinksDisplayFinestAdequateExquisiteSolaceAmenities Author:Agnes Repplier
“When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.” ChoicesMoralIssuesDevelopmentOptimismRationalAnalysisMoral Choices Author:Jim Yong Kim
“If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.” IfsFirstsSoulLightNextEffortDevelopmentProveCreaturesFirst TimeRedArgumentTestsIllRationalDriversNext TimeStoppingHumiliatingReflexesConditionalRed Lights Book:Pnin Source: Pnin
“A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.” HeartReasonDesireGivenKindnessViolenceRiskDevelopmentWeakCompetitionRationalProductiveDividedCelebrationAggressionLackingOrganisationRivalryExaggerating Book:Man and Woman, God Made Them Source: Man and Woman, God Made Them