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“It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.”

Way Has Beens Helping Might Mankind Sake Privilege Practicals Pursue

Author:Paul Nurse

“Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.”

World Mean Made Mankind Species Soldier Practicals Spectators Statesmen Parts Of Life Merchants Meddling Artisans

Author:Joseph Addison

“There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind”

Emotion Mankind Higher Practicals Appeals Preservation

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.”

People Men World Way Reason Mankind Contrary Practicals

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”

Men Art War Problem Turns Ability Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Survival Solutions Harmony Injustice Solve Practicals Dependent Art Of Living Scientific Progress

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind.”

Age Political Interest Economy Modern Subjects Mankind Practicals Chiefs Branches Enquiry Political Economy

Book:Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.”

Humans Play Seeing Atheism Mankind Affair Be Good Practicals Guidance Endeavor Foresight

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.”

Nations Sea Land Mankind Fortune Connected Practicals Armament

Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.”

Thinking Knows Wells Facts Mankind Theory Weight Practicals Judgement Good Sense Precaution Fallibility

Book:On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays