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“Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.”

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Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.”

Should Humans Home Perfect Quality Limits Should Have Strive Improvement Mood Quantity Providing Arrangements Unlimited Felicity

Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

“We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to the effort man can demand of himself. This quality is the basis of all human achievementit can never be proved enough. I consider that we climbers - that I - serve all humanity. We prove that there is no limit to what man can do.”

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Author:Walter Bonatti

“Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.”

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Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.”

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Author:Dave McKean

“We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing a highly efficient machine, ... but of quickening all the distinctly human features, all that is best in man, all the different qualities, some obvious, some infinitely subtle, which we recognize as humanly excellent.”

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Author:Ronald Fisher

“We have to make it easier to be good workers, good parents and good caregivers all at the same time. That's why I've set out a bold vision to make quality, affordable child care available to all Americans and limit the cost to 10 percent of family income.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.”

Life Is Quality Limits Eternal Quality Of Life Eternal Life Duration

Book:The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of

Source: The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of