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“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”

Ideas Care Religious Position Theory Elements Essence Constitution Mere Driven Doctrine Distinction Latter Subordinates

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.”

May Doe Form Law Special Theory Solutions Essence Universal Bases Method Mathematical Reasoning Probability Assured Universal Laws

Book:Collected Logical Works

Source: Collected Logical Works

“It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.”

“While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.”

Practice Theory Essence Hinduism Gita

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.”

Spirit Belief Existence Acceptance Theory Conscious Essence Ultimate Unity Rejection Unbelief

Book:The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine

Source: The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine

“Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.”

Should Mean Has Beens Reality Wish Adventure Theory Essence Remains Disappear Sensations Delightful

Author:Arthur Dove

“Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.”

World Should Humans Facts Science Differences Groups Theory Limits Essence Currents Ideology Biology Determinism

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.”

Doe Movement Color Theory Essence Arise Transcendentalism

Author:Robert Delaunay

“Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.”

Knows Facts Would Be Science Knowledge Theory Essence Accounts Worthy Scientific Knowledge Madhouses

Author:Oliver Heaviside

“[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules-out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.”

“What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.”

Law Found Born Vision Movement Color Theory Essence Observation Rhythm Cherish Contrast Complementary Simultaneous Complementary Colors

Author:August Macke

“According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.”

Want Facts Lying Practice Democracy Theory Concepts Essence Historical Socialism Construction Socialist Revive Indivisible

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.”

States Reality Political Economic Subjects Policy Theory Essence Independent International Colonialism Sovereignty Economic Systems

Book:Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

Source: Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

“In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.”

Matter Light Energy Space Music Creation Theory Essence Strings Gravity Time And Space String Theory God's Creation Matter And Energy

Author:Roy H. Williams