“Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.” IfsAmericaLawScienceExistenceStudyRevolutionProveNegativeUniversalConstitutionLawyerSuspendedAmerican Constitution Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.” HumansFormTurnsIndividualUnderstandingHuman BeingsRoomsCommonStudyToo MuchWindBehaviorReflectionConnectionsUniversalInternationalPhilosopherCurrentsDisappearLifestyleLimitationAffectedAttributesAccurateBiasInwardIntrovertHuman BehaviorLaboratoryRelevanceIntroverted Author:Criss Jami
“The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.” MindShowsLanguageRaceChristianityStudyElementsUniversalClimateTheologyTraditionalLimitationZoneSignificanceBrotherhoodGlobesLiberatingTranscendentLatitudeLatitude And Longitude Author:Amos Bronson Alcott
“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.” WorldMayProblemSeemsTurnsRoomsViewsStudySeriousCivilizationSolutionsUniversalInstitutionsFinalsContemptAdoptionWorld ProblemsMyopia Author:George F. Kennan
“Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.” KindAgeStudyParticularGeniusUniversalIncline Author:John Dryden
“There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony.” WorldEndsBodyLawSongCoursesStudyFlowerEternalBirdUniversalMarkHarmonyUnityDelightAccidentsObservationOccasionsObedienceEchoesDefiniteShiftingSymphonyConstellationsFlower Blossom Author:John Muir
“The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.” StudyTalentIndustryUniversalStupidityPainterLazyRefugeBlindnessInfatuationVindictiveness Author:Charles Baudelaire
“The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.” IfsWorldKindMeanDoeFeelingsSchoolStudyColorPureHigh SchoolUniversalMathematicsPatternsMathBoredCosmosBeing Bored Book:Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality Source: Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality
“The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.” WorldHas BeensPassionVisionPrinciplesStudyDisciplineIntegrityElementsSixMajorsConscienceUniversalEducatedTimelessPonderingWorld Religions Author:Stephen Covey
“If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or something like that because their claims were supposed to apply universally. But the claim of somebody who is studying a particular feature of the evolutionary process like whether it's very fast or very slow, or occurs in steps and so on, that's not a universal claim, that's a rather specialised claim and so you can't claim to great fame and great success.” IfsAsksProcessStepsStudyParticularFameScientistUniversalClaimsFeaturesNewtonGreat Success Author:Richard Lewontin
“To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.” WorldWholeLyingInterestStudyDivineGoodnessUniversalWhole WorldHeightTemper Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.” IfsMeanYoungBlackWhiteResultsStudyAcceptanceFemaleUniversalMethodMalesMeritInquiryAssertionRigorBlack Or WhiteApolitical Author:Michael Crichton