#nat

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#constant #desire #development #forgotten #had

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff. ↗

— John Poindexter

#continue #counterterrorism #defense #department #elements

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#ethnic #everywhere #hopelessness #racial

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#civil #civil society #international #nations #new

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#autocracy #democracy #nation #place #taken

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#any #data #definite #derived #embodied

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#experience #nature #novel #private #reading