#scienc

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #civil #civil war #development #direction

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#as far as #century #far #held #huxley

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conscience #humanity #morality #politics #principles

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#airplane #created #environment #foreign #governments

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#answered #become #been #coherence #found

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes. ↗

— James Otis

#conscience #declare #despise #every #foes

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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