#arc

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#almost #anything #assuming #available #composite

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#basic #basic research #learn #ourselves #research

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#diet #had #i #just #last

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#culture #done #foreign #glories #human

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Robert Half

#more #much #rarer #recognize #scarce

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#created #defense #department #develop #developed

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#fear #hierarchy

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government. ↗

— Robert Hurt

#god #government #man #monarch #our

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#essentially #experience #foundation #higher #larger