#ration

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. ↗

— John Ruskin

#demonstrations #facts #impressions #science #substitute

Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #moderation #funny

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooperation #ethics #oneself #origin #others

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #could #evidence #i #life

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#mankind #only #redeem #the only thing #thing

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#aeroplanes #age #dams #ideology #like

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#back #fear #hold #out #striking

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#earth #even #greatly #his #imperfect

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bring #campaign #cannot #clearly #distortions