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“There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.”

Trying Art Two Results Study Ought Instinct Critics Complicated Combination Richness Modification Art Critic

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.”

“Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.”

Self Government Rights Subjects Evident Modification

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United States of America is nothing more than a piece of paper and... our government should not be restrained by the Constitution because our government can do good things for people.”

“Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Humans Self Capable Smart Shock Optimist Modification Self Change

Author:Brian Eno

“I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.”

World Mean Relationship Plant Our Relationship Quantum Modification

Author:Michael Pollan

“(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth”

Two Character Creation Myth Psychological Propaganda Manipulation Routes Stereotype Reflexes Modification Psychological Manipulation

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.”

Has Beens Light Science Arise Mediums Rays Hypothesis Fluid Modification Supposing Supposition Supposing That

Book:Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

Source: Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.”

Speak Sound Air Various Affected Modification

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.”

“First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.”

Ifs Firsts Effects Health Treats Medicine Patient China Lifestyle Cures Chinese Diets Treatment Healthy Lifestyle Medication Modification Healthy Eating Alternative Medicine Acupuncture

Author:Sun Simiao

“Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.”

Firsts Wells Whole Might Sex Imagine Scene Species Fantastic Urges Loyal Looking Back Technological Survived Primates Modification Carnivores

Book:The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

Source: The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

“To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.”

War Facts Problem Causes Deals Civilization Solutions Familiar Prime Superficial Recognizing Incomplete Barbarism Modification Causes Of War

Book:Addresses on International Subjects

Source: Addresses on International Subjects

“He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.”

Mind Two Body Natural Dependence Incessantly Reciprocal Modification Conjunctions

Book:Dialogues on Metaphysics

Source: Dialogues on Metaphysics

“Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.”

Source: Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: including preliminary observations on the study of Indian botany; a summary of the labours of Indian botanists; a sketch of the meteorology of India; outlines of the physical geography and botany of the provinces of India: With 2 Maps. By J. D. Hooker and Thomas Thomson. Reprinted from the

“No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must be strictly monitored by its owner to prevent lapses into health-threatening behaviors as identified by risk discourse. For those with the socioeconomic resources to indulge in risk modification, this discourse may supply the advantages of a new religion; for others, this discourse has the potential to create anxiety and guilt, to promote hopelessness and fear of the future.”

“There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.”

People Causes Results Planets Ready Evolution Bases Plant Damage Radiation Agriculture Dna Things Change Mixtures Our Planet Modification Mutation Genetically Modified Genetic Mutation

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.”

Mind Philosophy Body Law Psychology Medicine Senses Soma Modification

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology