“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.” FirstsWould BeAsksPrinciplesEconomyConditionsFindingsPrioritiesEcology Author:David Suzuki
“The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.” WorldProblemRoomsPrinciplesModernChangedFindingsCrowdsConformModern WorldModern LifeGeographyHerdsAmused Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."” PeopleIfsWayMayLittlesCountryFactsBodyMightCarePrinciplesFindingsEvidenceConsequenceLet MeLaysEnormousTreatedI CareTemptedAdministrativeAdministrators Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.” MenLongMightNaturalRacePrinciplesSolitudeQuietFindingsCreatorChosenSpotsPreferenceLong LifeReposeCemeteryCharterSecludedEquality Of Man Author:Thaddeus Stevens
“To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, It is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.” IfsWayHumansMeanHelpingRealityRunningHuman BeingsPrinciplesTheoryDramaFindingsCriticismScientistCriticsExperimentsBest WayOpennessAlliesRenaissanceAdvocacyCourtroom Author:Martin Seligman
“Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.” KindIdeasIndividualPrinciplesDesignBuildingFindingsArchitectureFormulasDiscoveringRegularity Author:Shigeru Ban
“This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.” IfsWayPrinciplesSourceAmbitionFindingsDemocraticCorruptionControlledInherentAlasSubordinatesLegislators Book:Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State Source: Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State