“TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.” EyeScienceSacrificeObjectsHumourEarsRelationDetailsDevicesBellsMultitudesTelephonesPlagueEnablingTelescopesSummoning Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.” InspirationalCharacterHappinessSuccessScienceHumanityWorkWealthSinPleasureBusinessPrinciplesKnowledgeSacrificeSocietyMoralityWorshipConscienceSevenCommerceDeadly SinsSeven Deadly SinsWithout SacrificeSeven Sins Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.” ScienceIndividualSacrificeSubjectsEvolutionDearTreatmentImperfectionMutationPlasticity Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky
“According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.” WellsMayCharacterEyeScienceHumanityWealthSinPleasurePrinciplesKnowledgeSacrificeHard WorkMoralityWorshipConscienceSevenDefinitionsCommerceBiographiesWithout SacrificeSeven Sins Book:Jimmy Carter Source: Jimmy Carter
“Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.” DoeStillsBigsScienceSacrificeAcceptanceProduceProductionsAcceptedCombinationInitiativeBureaucracyBig BusinessPanaceaMergers Author:Reginald Fessenden
“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.” KnowsChildrenPlaySciencePoliticalForceNatureBornNaturalViewsWatchesSacrificeGreatnessMastersIndustryCreaturesSurvivalStrongerBoundariesStrongestFavouriteGlobesLiving CreaturesFree Play Author:Adolf Hitler
“Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.” ScienceValuesNaturalEmotionKnowledgeTakenSacrificeEmotional Author:Charles Scott Sherrington