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“The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists of the world are forming an invisible network with a very free flow of scientific information - a freedom accepted by the countries of the world irrespective of political systems or religions. ... Great care must be taken that the scientific network is utilized only for scientific purposes - if it gets involved in political questions it loses its special status and utility as a nonpolitical force for development.”

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

Book Force Principles Essence Bases Purity Preaching Utility

Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility”

Men Action Goodness Screens Good Man Suspects Villain Utility Shady

Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.”

Wells Law Energy Pay Company Flawed Utility Retail Wholesale

Author:Gray Davis

“Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.”

Play Feelings Action Certain Order Space Materials Activity Limits Sacred Accepted Mood Enthusiasm Occasions Tension Visible Spheres Time And Space Utility Rapture Accompany Exaltation Festive

Book:Homo Ludens

Source: Homo Ludens

“The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.”

Men Past Science Names Bears Conversation Speech Noble Invention Contracts Recalls Profitable Utility Register Commonwealth Connexion

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.”

Use Eye Science Reading Numbers Study Judging Pure Method Useless Analysis Application Utility Appraise

Author:Joseph-Louis Lagrange

“Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.”

Use Source Train Plant Oil Nuclear Heat Gas Cycles Coal Truck Utility Automobile Oil And Gas Power Plants Generator Fission Nuclear Fission

Book:The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention

Source: The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention