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“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.”

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Author:Frank Shorter

“I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.”

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Book:Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics

Source: Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics

“In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.”

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Book:The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition

Source: The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition

“I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge.”

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Book:Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957

Source: Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957

“I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).”

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Author:Karl Popper

“A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.”

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Author:Susan Stebbing