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“Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all within his or her sphere, a delicate consideration of others, a control that gives rise to peace, and cessation from every thought of cruelty and lust.”

Giving Mean Spiritual Levels Ideals Lust Practicals Cruelty Consideration Spheres Delicate Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Nilakanta Sri Ram

“"Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world."”

World Whole Justice Principles Wonderful Ethics Ideals Islam Practicals Whole World Mystic

Author:Sarojini Naidu

“Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.”

World Winning Social Christianity Buddhism Concerned Islam Practicals Doctrine Contemplation Empires Mystical Bolshevism

Book:The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Source: The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

“The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.”

Natural Existence Technology Philosopher Practicals Application Transformed Irresponsible Semiconductors

Author:Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”

“The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.”

“I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.”

Book Written Mom Encouragement Practicals

Author:Lisa Whelchel

“My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.”

Helping Desire Passion Mom Encouragement Practicals My Passion

Author:Lisa Whelchel

“Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.”

Littles Practicals Redneck Mischievous Practical Joke

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.”

Thinking World Whole Attitude Influence Awareness Organization Seeking Practicals Destructive Categories Outlook Dependency Biosphere

Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy

“Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.”

Humans Science Life Is Purpose Universe Bounds Practicals Recognition Human Life

Author:James Van Allen

“Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.”

Universe Force Goodness Practicals Goodwill

Author:Charles Fletcher Dole

“An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.”

Mind Said Success Found Winning Steps Opinion Advice Succeed Medical Practicals Excellent Employed Recommendations

Book:Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist

Source: Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist

“Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.”

Way Giving Sometimes Theory Advantage Sake Practicals Individualism Principal Theoretical

Author:William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

“Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”

Whole Government Freedom Liberty Psychology Please Promise Conscience Slave Contrary Favors Practicals Command Combination Fraud Grounded

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.”

Self Facts Law Liberty Democracy Clear Demand Practicals Recognition Working It Sane Restraint Foe Laws Of Nature Power To Change Self Restraint Autocracy Foolproof

Book:Frenzied liberty: the myth of

Source: Frenzied liberty: the myth of

“[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may appear to be a visible or practical limit will turn out to be but a bend in the road.”

Way May Ends Past Science Turns Steps Progress Limits Practicals Visible Remove Barriers Blocked Bends In The Road

Author:Osborne Reynolds

“Engineering is the art or science of making practical.”

Art Science Definitions Practicals Engineering Engineers

Book:The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

Source: The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

“Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.”

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.”

May Science Accounts Pursuit Practicals Vain Assured Utility

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.”

“Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.”

Way Needs War Ends Terror Practicals Dialogue Resolution Solidarity Diplomacy Win Win

Author:Luisa Morgantini

“Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility”

Choices Human Nature Independence Practicals Impulse Sensibility Power Of Choice

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a 'matter-of-fact' habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering on them.”

Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals

“[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.”

Action Given Moral Psychology Influence Ethics Practicals Faculty

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side.”

Humans May Mean Art States Body Lost Sides Health Pure Medicine Assuming Various Practicals Divides Human Body Theoretical Applied Science

Author:Avicenna

“Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about the risks and benefits of drugs in specific populations. Pharmacogenomics is a new field, but we intend to do all we can to use it to promote the development of medicines. By providing practical guidance on how to turn the explosion of pharmacogenomic information into real evidence on new drugs, we are taking an important step toward that goal.”

Important Real Use Light Turns Process Goal Steps Greater Risk Information Fields Development Promise Drug Benefits Evidence Medicine Population Practicals Guidance Providing Shed Explosions

Author:Mark McClellan

“Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.”

“The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.”

“Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.”

Failure Dare Excuse Practicals Confession

Author:Charles Simmons

“It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.”

Believe Wells Difficult Failing Terrorism Improvement Practicals Quantum Efficiency Nevertheless Mechanic Quantum Mechanics

Author:John Stewart Bell

“For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.”

Form Known Objects Activity Highest Capable Ethics Intellect Practicals Contemplation

Author:Aristotle

“My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.”

Way Heart Government Causes Deals Program Practicals Objectives Memorable Deficiency Government Programs

Author:Gough Whitlam

“Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.”

Ifs Made Goal Practicals Memorable

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.”

Results Jokes Practicals Memorable Crude Practical Joke

Author:Steven Morrissey

“If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”

People Ifs Littles Stories Fall Black Lines White Laughing Cry Paper Jokes Mark Practicals Sheets Making People Laugh Practical Joke White Paper

Book:Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

“Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.”

“I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.”

“In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).”

“You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know that if we see an outfit on a mannequin in a shop window we will love it and want to buy it whatever size we are. That's why they have size zero models - they want to sell clothes. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.”

“I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.”

Believe Use I Believe Struggle Debate Practicals Cunning Standpoint

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.”

Knows Inspirational Done Philosophy Whole Motivational Decision Practicals Practical Life

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.”

People Humans Form Political Social Opinion Democracy Rights Groups Possibility Shapes Dignity Practicals Welfare Select Reserved Human Dignity Criticise Political Freedom Social Welfare

Author:Olof Palme

“The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.”

World Way War Nations Democracy Achieve Profit Practicals Competing

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing.”

World Games Social Understanding Economic Modern Subjects Intellectual Consequence Economics Sick Mathematics Sake Practicals Economist Relevance Rigour

Author:Mark Blaug

“Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't”

Source: The Unconscious Civilization

“My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.”

“Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.”

Wells Science Goal Exercise Solutions Ultimate Practicals Controlled Application Engines Construction Ultimate Goal

Author:Aharon Katzir

“The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through the pursuit of practical and effective efforts to promote human rights that we show our real commitment to the welfare of individuals and society.”

Humans Important Real Matter Shows Individual Effort Rights Commitment Dignity Human Rights Protection Pursuit Practicals Welfare Gestures Symbolic Individuals And Society

Author:Alexander Downer