“The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.” KnowsMenIdeasScienceImaginationExistencePrinciplesImagineConditionsEventsHe ManContraryNew Ideas Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics
“We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.” BodyEvilPrinciplesImagineOughtSubstanceGod LoveCherish Author:Thomas Aquinas
“I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.” WorldHeartRealHalfPrinciplesImagineShareBearsOughtGratitudeSmallestResidentsOne HalfEtymology Author:Charlotte Charke
“[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.” ChristianNationsPresidentPrinciplesImagineImpossibleScaryImagine ThatGroundedSelect Author:John McCain
“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.” MenHumansDoeDifferentHandsSeemsGovernmentMightSufferingPrinciplesPiecesWiseImaginePlansHe ManMembersIdealsInvestingChessEaseBoardsImagine ThatSmallestImpressConceitLegislatureHuman SocietyDeviationVery WiseWealth Of NationsGreat Society Author:Adam Smith