#sci

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#critically #detachment #development #economy #imagined

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#lead #medicine #policy #politics #rhetoric

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. ↗

— William Bernbach

#art #fundamentally #happens #persuasion #science

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#experimentation #observation #passive #science

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#been #british #does #england #ever

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#children #creative #endeavor #raising #raising children

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#apollo #big #contributor #doubt #engineering

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#compensation #conscience #debtors #forgetfulness #gift

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#himself #pretty #real #self-conscious #well

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?" I speculated such a suggestion could be seen as a serious deviancy. Melphi seemed delited. "Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Melphi relplied, "History suggests, not until they are made to. ↗

— David Mitchell

#equality #hatred #justice #perception #racism