#scienc

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition. ↗

— Mas'udi

#byzantium #christianity #religion #science #religion

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#completely #concern #consensus #ethical #ever

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science. ↗

— Claude C. Hopkins

#come #hands #reached #science #some

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#both #foundation #human #me #need

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#boston #give #globe #i #i write

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#child #conscience #cure #disease #family

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. ↗

— David Eagleman

#adult life #approach #around #essentially #i

I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#age

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. ↗

— Karen Horney

#considered #hitherto #like #men #only

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#comes #data #experiences #exploring #first