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“An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.”

Humans Self Reason Bits Self Improvement Capacity Wide Improvement Enlightened Superstitions Sovereignty Limitless Exploits Scientism Human Reason Leprechaun

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.”

World Play Games Heard Arms Scientism

Author:Kristin Hersh

“Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.”

World Courses Attention Wall Aim Domination Barbarians Scientism World Domination

Author:Barbara Amiel

“I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.”

Way Helping Used Chance Acting Class Strikes Treated Take A Chance Scientism Acting Classes Gentlemanly

Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.”

Long Might Change Theory Gravity Quantum Speculation Scientism Spacetime Topology

Author:Edward Witten

“Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.”

“The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.”

Persons Used Language Term Failing Behavior Illness Greek Intervention Good And Bad Distinguished Scientism Intoxicated Psychiatric Euphemism Bad Behavior

Author:Thomas Szasz

“It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.”

Play Character Guy Fun Like You Being Yourself Bad Guys Scientism

Author:Richard Kiel

“It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.”

Running Growing Stage Development Losing Making Money Google Site Scientism Stages Of Development

Author:John Doerr

“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”

Problem Politics Politician Administration Presidential Scientism Terminal

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961

“Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.”

Men Has Beens Use Science Modern Healthy Instruments Refuse Physics Senses Experiments Accomplishment Misfortunes Artificial Scientism Modern Physics

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.”

Problem Source Concern Mathematics Ethical Consensus Scientism

Author:Daniel Dennett

“It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.”

Wells Individual Bits Millions Childhood Average Scientism

Author:DeForest Kelley

“Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.”

Way Should Characteristics Chickens Elegant Turkeys Delicacy Scientism Cache

Author:Todd English

“When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.”

Together Working Together Scientism

Author:Victoria Principal

“We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.”

Financial Various Obligation Competitors Scientism

Author:Gerard Arpey

“Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.”

Fighting Democracy Forgiving Generous Dictatorship Scientism

Author:Jalal Talabani

“Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.”

Country States Cities Majors Strikes Disaster Assistance Scientism American Cities Honolulu

Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka

“Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.”

Europe Aristocracy Scientism

Book:Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

“I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.”

Two Bigs Guy Half Feet Easier Seven Pounds Tall Inches Skinny Scientism One Half Weighing

Author:Richard Kiel

“And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.”

Radical Scientism Newman Expressionism Pollock

Author:Donald Judd

“I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.”

People Knows World Feelings Felt Fellows Patterns Scientism

Author:Josiah Royce

“Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.”

Knows Important School Can Do Important Things Staying Scientism Stay In School

Author:Alexis Herman

“A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.”

Mind States Film Photographer Sensitive State Of Mind Sheets Exposure Fractions Receptive Scientism

Author:Minor White

“The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.”

Doe Ends Film Evil Winning Differences Good Life Scientism

Author:Ajay Devgan

“Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.”

“I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.”

May Necks Gray Paralyzed Scientism

Author:Larry Flynt

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