“I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.” MenBelieveMadeEarthSpiritualScienceIndividualI BelieveGrowthNaturalDevelopmentFeaturesSpiritual GrowthSubstitutesArtificialSpiritual DevelopmentRetarded Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.” StatesPoliticalUnitedClassUnited StatesDevelopmentLateMassOrganizationWorking ClassRetardedRetard Author:C. L. R. James
“The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.” TwoIdeasLawNaturalPracticeCenturyTheoryDevelopmentAncientPhilosopherGreekOppositionOur ThoughtsMechanicFallacyNatural LawInconsistentRetardedPhysical ScienceTheory And Practice Author:William John Macquorn Rankine
“My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.” SpaceResultsWonderDevelopmentIntellectualTime And SpaceRelativityRetardedTheories Of RelativityIntellectual Development Author:Albert Einstein
“God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.” MenWayGodDevelopmentCivilizationExplanationRetardedPainlessGod Is Not Great Author:Christopher Hitchens